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The statutes of Omri; of which you read, 1Ki_16:25-28. He built Samaria, to be a royal city, and seat of religion brought in by Jeroboam; thus he both strengthened and put more credit upon the idolatrous worship, which was set up by Omri in a royal city. whereas by Jeroboam it was set up in places of meaner account.
Are kept; diligently, very much. All the works of the house of Ahab; summed up, in establishing Jeroboam’s idolatry, introducing the idolatrous worship of Baal, 1Ki_16:31-33, cutting off the prophets of the Lord, 1Ki_18:4 19:10,14, and abolishing the true worship of God; besides the barbarous contriving the death of the innocent, and seizing the estate, 1Ki_21:8,9, &c.
And ye, of the house of Israel, though under the government of families which had no great reason to value the house of Ahab, yet you have done their works of idolatry and oppression, and you also of the house of Judah have degenerated and done like their works.
Ye walk in their counsels; literally fulfilled in Jehoram’s reign, acts, and counsels, 2Ki_8:17,18; and in Ahaziah’s, who was son of Jehoram, and grandson of Jehoshaphat, 2Ki_8:27; and so did Jehu, and his successors, all persist in the idolatry of the calf-worship, and in oppression of the poor: thus instead of walking humbly with God, they did openly depart from him, contrary to what God required of them.
That I should make thee, & c. eventually this was the end, or in necessary tendency it could not end otherwise, though they did not intend this, nor did God will them to do so that it might so end.
A desolation; an utter waste, such as should astonish those that saw it.
The inhabitants thereof, of the city or land, a hissing, in token of abhorrence and derision, Deu_28:37 Jer_25:9,18 29:18.
Therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people; the reproach threatened in the law, if my people forsake me; or, Jerusalem shall be as much reproached as Samaria; or as Eze_36:20.
The statutes of Omri; of which you read, 1Ki_16:25-28. He built Samaria, to be a royal city, and seat of religion brought in by Jeroboam; thus he both strengthened and put more credit upon the idolatrous worship, which was set up by Omri in a royal city. whereas by Jeroboam it was set up in places of meaner account.
Are kept; diligently, very much. All the works of the house of Ahab; summed up, in establishing Jeroboam’s idolatry, introducing the idolatrous worship of Baal, 1Ki_16:31-33, cutting off the prophets of the Lord, 1Ki_18:4 19:10,14, and abolishing the true worship of God; besides the barbarous contriving the death of the innocent, and seizing the estate, 1Ki_21:8,9, &c.
And ye, of the house of Israel, though under the government of families which had no great reason to value the house of Ahab, yet you have done their works of idolatry and oppression, and you also of the house of Judah have degenerated and done like their works.
Ye walk in their counsels; literally fulfilled in Jehoram’s reign, acts, and counsels, 2Ki_8:17,18; and in Ahaziah’s, who was son of Jehoram, and grandson of Jehoshaphat, 2Ki_8:27; and so did Jehu, and his successors, all persist in the idolatry of the calf-worship, and in oppression of the poor: thus instead of walking humbly with God, they did openly depart from him, contrary to what God required of them.
That I should make thee, & c. eventually this was the end, or in necessary tendency it could not end otherwise, though they did not intend this, nor did God will them to do so that it might so end.
A desolation; an utter waste, such as should astonish those that saw it.
The inhabitants thereof, of the city or land, a hissing, in token of abhorrence and derision, Deu_28:37 Jer_25:9,18 29:18.
Therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people; the reproach threatened in the law, if my people forsake me; or, Jerusalem shall be as much reproached as Samaria; or as Eze_36:20.