(2:10–3:6) Introduction: the LORD’s indictment against His people continues. The LORD has already charged the people with doubting His love and dishonoring His Name. Now He turns His attention to sins related primarily to their treatment of one another—predominantly, the problems of divorce and intermarriage (marriage to unbelievers). The root of divorce was the sin of unfaithfulness. The root of intermarriage was the sin of compromise with the world. To these sins the people added the sin of hypocrisy
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