7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
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And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: …
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. …
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)The date of this sermon must be observed, in order to the right understanding of it; it was in the days of Josiah , who set on foot a blessed work of reformation, in which he was hearty, but the people were not sincere in their compliance with it; to reprove them for that, and warn them of the consequences of their hypocrisy, is the scope of that which God here said to the prophet, and which he de…
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