20And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
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Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-26)The Danites had sent out their spies to find out a country for them, and they sped well in their search; but here, now that they came to the place (for till this brought it to their mind it does not appear that they had mentioned it to their brethren), they oblige them with a further discovery—they can tell them where there are gods: “Here, in these houses , there are an ephod, and teraphim, and a…
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