8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
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For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. …
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-11)The foregoing vision was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood ; and some think that the scope of it is to foretel the final destruction of the Jewish church and nation and the dispersion of the Jews, when, by crucifying Christ and persecuting his gospel, they should have filled up the measure of their iniquities; therefore it is industriously set out in obscur…
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