32Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
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Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. …
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-34)Here is, 1. The view which Solomon took of the field and vineyard of the slothful man. He did not go on purpose to see it, but, as he passed by, observing the fruitfulness of the ground, as it is very proper for travellers to do, and his subjects’ management of their land, as it is very proper for magistrates to do, he cast his eye upon a field and a vineyard unlike all the rest; for, though the s…
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