22For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
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And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand. …
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand men. …
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-22)Note, 1. Religion and loyalty must go together. As men, it is our duty to honour our Creator, to worship and reverence him, and to be always in his fear; as members of a community, incorporated for mutual benefit, it is our duty to be faithful and dutiful to the government God has set over us, Rom. 13:1 , 2 . Those that are truly religious will be loyal, in conscience towards God; the godly in the…
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