24Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. …
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? …
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. …
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-26)Three of God’s covenants, that of royalty with David and his seed, that of the pri 33b3 esthood with Aaron and his seed, and that of Peculiarity with Abraham and his seed, seemed to be all broken and lost while the captivity lasted; but it is here promised that, notwithstanding that interruption and discontinuance for a time, they shall all three take place again, and the true intents and meaning…
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