When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and bands of robbers plunder outside.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Israel. God divided the kingdom, that by this chastisement the people might be converted. But Jeroboam set up calves, and caused them to grow worse. (Worthington)
How often did God send his prophets to reclaim them!
Without. Most of the kings were of this stamp, while foreign nations invaded the land.
