19And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
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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