2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Princes and prophets, when they faithfully discharge the duty of their office, are to be highly honoured above other men; but when they betray their trust, and act contrary to it, they should hear of their faults as well as others, and shall be made to know that there is a God above them, to whom they are accountable; at his bar the prophet here, in his name, arraigns them. I. Let the princes hear…
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