8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
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For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? …
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Upon the sounding of this trumpet, the things to be observed are, 1. A star falling from heaven to the earth . Some think this star represents some eminent bishop in the Christian church, some angel of the church; for, in the same way of speaking by which pastors are called stars, the church is called heaven; but who this is expositors do not agree. Some understand it of Boniface the third bishop…
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