24And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
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What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? …
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand. …
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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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