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Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.
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Sin's Boomerang Effect
Commentators explain that the very disasters the people sought to escape—war, famine, and disease—were guaranteed to find them in Egypt. Matthew Henry applies this more broadly, teaching that when we sin to avoid trouble, we often run directly into the very harm we fear. Choosing our own path over God's is not a safe refuge but a certain path to the consequences we dread.
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Jeremiah
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet finally concludes his discourse, after having mentioned the reasons why God would deal so severely with them: because their treachery, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Now therefore know certainlyF4; they might assure themselves of this, that it would certainly come to pass, an…
Presbyterian
If we wish to know the Lord's mind in doubtful cases, we must wait as well as pray. God is always ready to return in mercy to those he has afflicte…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the instruction is given; concerning this, there are three points.
He speaks of the authority of the one revealing…
