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A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments, Vol. IV: Jeremiah–Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

Study the unabridged version of this popular Bible study tool. Written by three pastor-scholars in the late nineteenth century, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments was a favorite resource of C. H. Spurgeon and other evangelical preachers. Each volume begins with introductions to the biblical books, followed by the text of scripture and verse-by-verse...

. 1–14.—GOD’S LOVE—ISRAEL’S INGRATITUDE—THE PRIESTS’ MERCENARY SPIRIT—A GENTILE SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD SHALL SUPERSEDE THEM. 1. The burden of the word of the Lord—the heavy sentence. to Israel—represented now by the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with individuals of the ten tribes who had returned with the Jews from Babylon. So “Israel” is used, Ezra 7:10. Cf. 2 Chr. 21:2, “Jehoshaphat king of Israel,” where Judah, rather than the ten tribes, is regarded as the truest representative
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