2Sa 12:11-12, 1Ki 22:20-23, Job 12:16, Psa 81:11-12, Eze 20:25 | TSK | STEP | I will raise. I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

2 Samuel 12:11-12

I will raise.

I will take.That is, in the course of my providence I will permit this to be done. Such phrases in Scripture do not mean that God either does or can do evil himself; but only that he permits such evil to be done as he foresaw would be done, and which, had he pleased, he might have prevented.

16:21,22; De 28:30; Eze 14:9; 20:25,26; Ho 4:13,14

secretly.

11:4,8,13,15; Ec 12:14; Lu 12:1,2; 1Co 4:5

1 Kings 22:20-23

persuade. or, deceive.

Job 12:16; Jer 4:10; Eze 14:9

23; Job 1:6,7; 2:1

a lying spirit.

Job 1:8-11; 2:4-6; Joh 8:44; Ac 5:3,4; 2Th 2:9,10; 1Ti 4:1; 1Jo 4:6

Re 12:9,10; 13:14; 16:13,14; 20:3,7,10

Thou shalt.

20; Jud 9:23; Job 12:16; Ps 109:17; 2Th 2:10-12; Re 17:17

behold, the Lord.

Ex 4:21; 10:20; De 2:30; 2Ch 25:16; Isa 6:9,10; 44:20; Eze 14:3-5,9

Mt 13:13-15; 24:24,25

and the Lord.

8-11; 20:42; 21:19; Nu 23:19,20; 24:13; Isa 3:11

Job 12:16

With.

13; Mt 6:13

the deceived.

1Ki 22:22,23; Eze 14:9

Psalms 81:11-12

people.

106:12,13; Jer 2:11-13; 7:23,24; Zec 7:11

would none.

Ex 32:1; De 32:15,18; Pr 1:30; Heb 10:29

I gave.

Ge 6:3; Ac 7:42; 14:16; Ro 1:24,26,27; 2Th 2:9-11

their own hearts' lust. or, the hardness of their hearts, orimaginations. they walked.

Ex 11:9; Isa 30:1; Jer 7:24; 44:16,17

Ezekiel 20:25

I gave.The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

26,39; 14:9-11; De 4:27,28; 28:36; Ps 81:12; Isa 66:4; Ro 1:21-28

2Th 2:9-11