And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
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Gill's Exposition
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you,.... As seemed by taking and bringing captive such a number of them, contrary to the law, Lev…
Barnes' Notes
Are there not with you ... sins against the Lord? - The ten tribes had fallen away from the true faith far more completely and more hopelessly than the two. It was not for them to press hard against…
We have here,
I. Treacherous Judah under the rebukes of God's providence, and they are very severe. Never was such bloody work made among them since they were a kingdom, and by Israelites too. Ahaz…
Cambridge Bible
keep under In Neh 5:5, the same Heb. word is translated, "bring into bondage"; cp. Ryle's note on Hebrew slavery in loco.One Hebrew might hold another Hebrew as a slave for a limited period, but in…
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