10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
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For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. …
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Here are two sins charged upon the people of Israel, and judgments denounced against them for each, such judgments as exactly answer the sin—persecuting God’s prophets and oppressing God’s poor. I. Persecuting God’s prophets, suppressing and silencing them, is a sin that provokes God as much as anything, for it not only spits in the face of his authority over us, but spurns at the bowels of his me…
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