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Hate the evil, he. Compare Psa_34:14; Psa_97:10. Rom_12:9, This concludes the last of the three exhortations.
it may be. Hebrew. u lay. The whole versa is the exhortation: but the Heb, accent marks off this sentence, calling attention, not to uncertainty on the part of Jehovah, but to the difficulty on Israel's part; and this order to stimulate obedience to the exhortation. Compare Exo_32:30. 2Ki_19:4. Joe_2:14.
Joseph. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6, for the whole of the Northern Kingdom.