Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians,.... By entering into alliances with them, and worshipping their idols; which was done in the times of Ahaz, who sent to Tiglathpileser king of…
Barnes' Notes
Have diminished thine ordinary food - As a husband lessens the things which minister to the luxury of an unfaithful wife, so did the Lord cut Israel short in consequence of her unfaithfulness.…
Adam Clarke
Have diminished thine ordinary - חקך chukkech means here the household provision made for a wife - food, clothing, and money.
In these verses we have an account of the great wickedness of the people of Israel, especially in worshipping idols, notwithstanding the great favours that God had conferred upon them, by which, one…
Cambridge Bible
I have stretched I stretched … and diminished … them that hated … were ashamed. The reference appears to be to the distant times of the Philistine supremacy in the last days of the Judges.
thine…
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