For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
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Gill's Exposition
And he shall give Israel up,.... Into the hands of their enemies:
because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin; by his devices and stratagems, by his example and edicts,…
Barnes' Notes
The general prophecy of Moses Deu 29:28, that the disobedient Israelites would be rooted up out of their land, and cast into another land, is here for the first time repeated, and is definitively…
Adam Clarke
For the Lord shall smite Israel - See this prophecy fulfilled, Kg1 15:28-30, when Baasha destroyed all the house and posterity of Jeroboam.
When those that set up idols, and keep them up, go to enquire of the Lord, he determines to answer them, not according to the pretensions of their enquiry, but according to the multitude of their…
Cambridge Bible
as a reed is shaken For this figure of entire instability, cf. Mat 11:7 -a reed shaken with the wind". And here the root is planted amid the water, which will make it more tottering still.
beyond the…
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