Accepts Altar Attention Cover Covering Crying Doesn't Favor Further Gives Grief Groaning Hands Insomuch Longer Lord's Oblation Offering Offerings Pays Pleasing Pleasure Present Receives Receiveth Receiving Regard Regardeth Regards Satisfaction Sighing Tears Turning Wail Weep Weeping
2:13 And this have ye done again, {r} covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth [it] with good will at your hand.
(r) Yet cause the people to lament, because God does not regard their sacrifices, so that they seem to sacrifice in vain.
2:13 And this - Beside that first fault, you have committed another, you misuse, and afflict your Jewish wives, whom alone you should have cherished. With tears - Your despised wives fly to the temple, weep and cry to God for redress. With weeping - This is added to shew the abundance of their tears. He - The Lord.
2:10-17 Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Jews put away the wives they had of their own nation, probably to make room for strange wives. They made their lives bitter to them; yet, in the sight of others, they pretend to be tender of them. Consider she is thy wife; thy own; the nearest relation thou hast in the world. The wife is to be looked on, not as a servant, but as a companion to the husband. There is an oath of God between them, which is not to be trifled with. Man and wife should continue to their lives' end, in holy love and peace. Did not God make one, one Eve for one Adam? Yet God could have made another Eve. Wherefore did he make but one woman for one man? It was that the children might be made a seed to serve him. Husbands and wives must live in the fear of God, that their seed may be a godly seed. The God of Israel saith that he hateth putting away. Those who would be kept from sin, must take heed to their spirits, for there all sin begins. Men will find that their wrong conduct in their families springs from selfishness, which disregards the welfare and happiness of others, when opposed to their own passions and fancies. It is wearisome to God to hear people justify themselves in wicked practices. Those who think God can be a friend to sin, affront him, and deceive themselves. The scoffers said, Where is the God of judgement? but the day of the Lord will come.
Accepts Altar Attention Cover Covering Crying Favor Flood Further Gives Good Grief Groaning Hand Hands Insomuch Longer Oblation Offering Offerings Pays Pleasure Receives Receiveth Regard Regardeth Regards Satisfaction Second Sighing Tears Thought Wail Weep Weeping
Accepts Altar Attention Cover Covering Crying Favor Flood Further Gives Good Grief Groaning Hand Hands Insomuch Longer Oblation Offering Offerings Pays Pleasure Receives Receiveth Regard Regardeth Regards Satisfaction Second Sighing Tears Thought Wail Weep Weeping
