2Ki 21:16, Jer 16:18, 19:4, 23:15, 31:37, Eze 8:17, 9:9, 22:24-31, Hos 4:1 | TSK | STEP | Manasseh. one end to another. Heb. mouth to mouth. beside his sin.

they put.So the Vulgate has, {applicant ramum ad nares suas,} "they apply the branch to their nose;" which Jerome explains by "a branch of the palm tree with which they adored the idols;" and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us, held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire.

Ezekiel 9:9

The iniquity.

7:23; 22:2-12,25-31; De 31:29; 32:5,15-22; 2Ki 17:7-23

2Ch 36:14-16; Isa 1:4; 59:2-8,12-15; Jer 5:1-9; 7:8,9; Mic 3:9-12

Zep 3:1-4

and the land.

8:17; 2Ki 21:16; 24:4; Jer 2:34; 22:17; La 4:13,14; Mt 23:35-37

Lu 11:50

full of. Heb. filled with. perverseness. or, wresting ofjudgment.

22:27-29; Mic 3:1-3; 7:3,4

The Lord hath.

8:12; Job 22:13; Ps 10:11; 94:7; Isa 29:15

Ezekiel 22:24-31

2Ch 28:22; 36:14-16; Isa 1:5; 9:13; Jer 2:30; 5:3; 6:29; 44:16-19

Zep 3:2

a conspiracy.

13:10-16; 1Ki 22:11-13,23; Jer 5:30,31; 6:13; La 2:14; 4:13

2Pe 2:1-3

like.

27-29; Isa 56:11; Ho 6:9; Mic 3:5-7; Re 13:11,15

ravening.That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured.

13:19; Jer 2:30,34; Mt 23:14; Mr 12:40; Lu 20:47; Re 17:6; 18:13

priests.

1Sa 2:12-17,22; Jer 2:8,26,27; La 4:13; Mic 3:11,12; Zep 3:3,4

Mal 1:6-8; 2:1-3,8

violated. Heb. offered violence to. profaned.

Le 22:2-33; 1Sa 2:15,29

put no.

44:23; Le 10:1-3,10; 11:47; 20:25; Jer 15:19; Hag 2:11-13

hid their.

8; 20:12,13

I am profaned.

36:20; Ro 2:24

princes.

6; 19:3-6; 22:6; 45:9; Isa 1:23; Ho 7:1-7; Mic 3:2,3,9-11; 7:8

Zep 3:3; Jas 2:6,7

to get.

13; Mt 21:13; Jas 5:1-4

prophets.The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them,) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge.

25; 13:10-16; Isa 30:10; Jer 8:10,11

seeing.

13:22,23; 21:29; Jer 23:25-32; La 2:14; Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord.

13:6,7; Jer 23:21; 28:2,15; 29:8,9; 37:19

people.

7; 18:12; Isa 5:7; 10:2; 59:3-7; Jer 5:26-28,31; 6:13; Am 3:10

Mic 2:2; 3:3; Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit. oppressed.

7; 22:7; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 19:33; Ps 94:6; Mt 25:43

wrongfully. Heb. without right.

I sought.God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phinehas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable.

Isa 59:16; 63:5; Jer 5:1

make.

13:5; Ge 18:23-32; Ex 32:10-14; Ps 106:23; Jer 15:1

have I poured.

21,22

their own.

7:3,8,9; 9:10; 11:21; 16:43; Ro 2:8,9

Hosea 4:1

1 God denounces judgments on Israel, for their aggravated impieties and iniquities.

12 He exposes the ignorance and wickedness of the priests, and profligacy of the people, he will leave their wives and daughters to commit lewdness, without present punishment.

15 He warns Judah, not to imitate Israel's crimes, which are still further reproved.

Cir. A.M.3224. B.C. 780. Hear.

1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14; 34:1; 66:5; Jer 2:4; 7:2; 9:20; 19:3; 34:4

Am 7:16; Re 2:11,29

for.

12:2; Isa 1:18; 3:13,14; 5:3; 34:8; Jer 25:31; Mic 6:2

no truth.

Isa 59:13-15; Jer 6:13; 7:3-6; Mic 7:2-5

nor knowledge.

Jer 4:22,28; 5:4; Joh 8:55; Ro 1:28; 1Co 15:34