Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
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Gill's Exposition
Then said he unto me, This is the curse,.... So the law of Moses is called, because it has curses written in it, Deu 27:15 which curse is not causeless, but is according to law and justice; it is from…
Barnes' Notes
Over the face of the whole earth - primarily land, since the perjured persons, upon whom the curse was to fall Zec 5:4, were those who swore falsely by the name of God: and this was in Judah only. The…
Adam Clarke
Every one that stealeth - and every one that sweareth - It seems that the roll was written both on the front and back: stealing and swearing are supposed to be two general heads of crimes; the former,…
We do not find that the prophet now needed to be awakened, as he did Zac 4:1. Being awakened then, he kept wakeful after; nay, now he needs not be so much as called to look about him, for of his own…
Cambridge Bible
earth Rather land, i.e. the land of Judah.
every one that stealeth The breach of one commandment of each table of the law, every one that stealeth, and so breaks the eighth commandment in the second…
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