And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, saying,
And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:
And Jehovah spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
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He considers our frame, and that, living in a world of sense, we are apt to require sensible proofs, which therefore he has favoured us with in sacramental signs and seals. Ahaz was a bad man, yet God is called the Lord his God, because he was a child of Abraham and David, and of the covenants made with them.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
A threatening of the great desolation that God would bring upon Ahaz and his kingdom by the Assyrians, notwithstanding their escape from this present storm, because they went on still in their wickedness,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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The Lord spake also unto me again, saying,
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
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