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43Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. …
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. …
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-48)Here, I. The narrative concludes with an account of Israel’s conduct in Canaan, which was of a piece with that in the wilderness, and God’s dealings with them, wherein, as all along, both justice and mercy appeared. 1. They were very provoking to God. The miracles and mercies which settled them in Canaan made no more deep and durable impressions upon them than those which fetched them out of Egypt…
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