So shall Bethel do unto you - God was the judge, who condemned them to suffer so from the enemy. The Assyrian was the instrument of the wrat…

King ... Cut off.— The close of the kingdom (721 B.C.), already more than once referred to , is here prophesied. …

The Prophet here denounces punishment, having previously exposed the sins of the people and sufficiently proved them guilty, who by subterfuges avo…

So shall Bethel do to you, because of your great wickedness , &c.] Or, "because of the evil of your evil" ^F19 …

Because God does not desire the death and ruin of sinners, He therefore, in mercy, desires their chastisement. The children of iniquity still remai…