You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
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Gill's Exposition
You only have I known of all the families of the earth,.... All the families or nations of the earth, and all the inhabitants of it, are known by the Lord, as he is the omniscient God; but none had…
Barnes' Notes
You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities - Such is the one law of God. The nearer anyone is brought unto God, the worse is his fall,…
Adam Clarke
You only have I known - I have taken no other people to be my own people. I have approved of you, loved you, fed, sustained, and defended you; but because you have forsaken me, have become idolatrous…
The scope of these verses is to convince the people of Israel that God had a controversy with them. That which the prophet has to say to them is to let them know that the Lord has something to say…
Cambridge Bible
You only&c. The pron. is emphatic by its position, in the Heb., as in the English.
known i.e. known favourably, noticed, regarded: so Gen 18:19, "I have knownhim to the end that he may command his…
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