16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. …
And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-19)We have here the people’s obstinate refusal to submit to the power of the word of God in the mouth of Jeremiah. We have scarcely such an instance of downright daring contradiction to God himself as this, or such an avowed rebellion of the carnal mind. Observe, I. The persons who thus set God and his judgments at defiance; it was not some one that was thus obstinate, but the generality of the Jews;…
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