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See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
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God's Corrective Hand
Commentators agree that God's actions—reducing provisions and delivering Judah to their enemies—were not arbitrary but were forms of corrective discipline. John Calvin emphasizes that God's "blows" are meant to rouse people to repentance. When hardship comes, it can be a call from God to examine our lives and turn back to Him.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Have diminished thine ordinary food - As a husband lessens the things which provide for the luxury of an unfaithful wife, so did th…
19th Century
Anglican
Diminished your ordinary food. — This cutting short of the power and prosperity of Israel was a discipline of correction designed to bring…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God reproves the hardness of the Jews because admonition did not make them wise. The common proverb aptly says, “fools grow wise only by the r…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you His chastising and correcting hand, to show his resentment a…
In this chapter, God's dealings with the Jewish nation and their conduct toward Him are described, along with their punishment through the surround…
