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Therefore; because thou hast so directly and strenuously opposed the Lord.
Thy wife shall be a harlot, which to a man of sense is a great affliction.
A harlot; a common whore. In the city; a notorious one, that plays not the adulteress in secret at home, but so that all take notice of it, and brand her for it.
Thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword; which in all likelihood doth intimate their slaughter by Shallum when he slew Zachariah, Jeroboam’s son, with whom no doubt but his friends fell, among which this family was; or else by the sword of Menahem, who slew Shallum.
Thy land shall be divided by line; thy estate, which no doubt was large, shall be shared among the soldiers and courtiers of Menahem.
And thou shalt die; thy dishonour by a lewd wife, thy childless solitariness, and thy poverty, shall come on thee ere thou die; it is probable he fled to save his life.
In a polluted land; among the heathen, where thou mayst be sure my word was true. Israel, the ten tribes,
shall surely go into captivity forth of his land: see Amo_7:11.