31Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
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Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-36)Here is, I. The general doom passed upon presumptuous sinners. 1. Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners that sin with a high hand , as the original phrase is (Num. 15:30), that is, that avowedly confront God’s authority, and set up their own lust in competition with it, that sin for sinning-sake, in contradiction to the precept of the law, and in defiance of the penalty, that fight against…
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