The whole seed of Ephraim - i.e., the whole of the nine northern tribes. Their casting out was a plain proof that the possession of the symb…

The whole seed of Ephraim. —The fate of the tribes of the Northern kingdom, among which Ephraim had always held the leading positi…

You know how, through the sin of Eli's sons, God forsook Shiloh; and the tent of his house and the ark of his covenant were removed, and Shiloh bec…

He concludes the former verse. The Prophet had indeed sufficiently explained himself, but this confirmation was necessary for a people so stubborn.…

And I will cast you out of my sight Or, "from before my face", or "faces" ^F14 ; out of the land of Judea, and …

No observances, professions, or supposed revelations will profit, if people do not amend their ways and their actions. None can claim an interest i…

1. Here, the prophet excludes the third means of a istance on which the people might have relied: the practice of their religion. He addre e…