16The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. …
And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. …
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-20)We have here, I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it ( Lam. 4:13 , 14 ): It is for the sins of her prophets , and the iniquities of her priests . Not that the people were innocent; no, they loved to have it so (Jer. 5:31), and it was to please them that the prophets and priests did as they did; but the fault is ch…
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