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For ,
behold ,
the LORD cometh forth out of his place ,
and will come (
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Meaning by this that God will come to judgment against the strong cities and strongholds .(:
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down ,
and tread upon the high places of the earth .
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And the mountaines shall melt vnder him (
so shall the valleys cleaue )
as waxe before the fire ,
and as the waters that are powred downewarde .
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For the transgression of Jacob [
is ]
all this ,
and for the sins of the house of Israel .
What [
is ]
the transgression of Jacob ? [
is it ]
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Samaria ,
which should have been an example to all Israel of true religion and justice ,
was the dirty pool and the tank that all idolatry and corruption was kept alive in ,
and who prided themselves in their father Jacob ,
and boasted of him .(:
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Samaria ?
and what [
are ]
the high That is ,
the idolatry and infection .
places of Judah ? [
are they ]
not Jerusalem ?
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Therefore I wil make Samaria as an heape of the fielde ,
and for the planting of a vineyard ,
and I will cause the stones thereof to tumble downe into the valley ,
and I will discouer the foundations thereof .
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And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces ,
and all the (
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Which they gathered by evil practices ,
and thought that their idols had enriched them with these wages because of their service to them .(:
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hires thereof shall be burned with the fire ,
and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate :
for she gathered [
it ]
of the hire of an harlot ,
and they shall return The gain that came by their idols will be consumed as a thing of nothing :
for as the wages or riches of harlots are wickedly gotten ,
so are they vilely and quickly spent .
to the hire of an harlot .