18And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-39)After God had set the blessing before them (the life and good which would make them a happy people if they would be obedient), he here sets the curse before them, the death and evil which would make them as miserable if they were disobedient. Let them not think themselves so deeply rooted as that God’s power could not ruin them, nor so highly favoured as that his justice would not ruin them if the…
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