Exodus 23:4-5
De 22:1-4; Job 31:29,30; Pr 24:17,18; 25:21; Mt 5:44; Lu 6:27,28Ro 12:17-21; 1Th 5:15 If thou see.De 22:4and wouldest forbear to help him. or, Wilt thou cease tohelp him? or, wouldest cease to leave thy business for him; thou shalt surely leave it to join with him.2 Kings 6:22
wouldest.De 20:11-16; 2Ch 28:8-13thy sword.Ge 48:22; Jos 24:12; Ps 44:6; Ho 1:7; 2:18set bread.Pr 25:21,22; Mt 5:44; Ro 12:20,212 Chronicles 28:9-15
he went out.19:1,2; 25:15,16; 1Ki 20:13,22,42; 2Ki 20:14,15Behold.To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment: it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing; and it is no wonder that it produced the effect here described. That there was much humanity, as well as firmness, in the heads of the children of Ephraim, who joined with the prophet of Jehovah on this occasion, their subsequent conduct, as detailed in the fifteenth verse, sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had taken, and with clothed, shod, fed, and anointed these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho! We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows from the foundation of the world. The compliance also of the whole army, in leaving both the captives and spoil to the disposal of the princes, was really wonderful, and perhaps unparalleled in history. Both the princes and army are worthy to be held up to the admiration and imitation of mankind. because the Lord God.5; Jud 3:8; Ps 69:26; Isa 10:5-7; 47:6; Jer 15:17,18; Eze 25:12-17Eze 26:2,3; Ob 1:10-16; Zec 1:15reacheth.Ge 4:10; 11:4; Ezr 9:6; Re 18:5 keep.Le 25:39-46not with.Jer 25:29; Mt 7:2-4; Ro 12:20,21; 1Pe 4:17,18the Lord.5 deliver.Isa 58:6; Jer 34:14,15; Heb 13:1-3the fierce.Ezr 10:14; Mt 5:7; 7:2; Jas 2:13 the heads.1Ch 28:1stood up.Jer 26:6 add more.Nu 32:14; Jos 22:17,18; Mt 23:32,35; Ro 2:5 14 expressed by name.12clothed.Job 31:15-23; Isa 58:7; Mt 25:35-45; Ac 9:39; 1Ti 5:10Jas 2:15,16; 1Jo 3:17,18gave them.2Ki 6:22; Pr 25:21,22; Lu 6:27; 8:27,35; Ro 12:20,21carried.Ro 15:1the city.De 34:3; Jud 1:16Psalms 7:4
If I.55:20; 109:5; Ge 44:4; Pr 17:3; Jer 18:20,21I have.1Sa 24:7,10,11; 26:9-17,24without.1Sa 19:4,5; 20:1; 22:14; 24:11-15,17-19; 25:28,29; 26:21Psalms 35:13-14
when.69:10,11; Job 30:25; Mt 5:44; Ro 12:14,15humbled. or, afflicted.Le 16:29,31; 1Ki 21:27-29; Isa 58:3,5; Mt 9:14,15my prayer.Mt 10:13; Lu 10:6 I behaved, etc. Heb. I walked as a friend, as brother to me.I bowed. 2Sa 1:11,12,17-27; Lu 19:41,42as one.Or, "as a mourning mother," {käavel aim.} Ge 24:67Proverbs 25:21-22
24:17; Ex 23:4,5; Mt 5:44; Lu 10:33-36; Ro 12:20,21 For.Not to consume, but to melt him into kindness; a metaphor taken from smelting metalic ores. the Lord.2Sa 16:12; Mt 10:13; 1Co 15:18
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