For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 15. Water. The kingdom of Israel was continually agitated with wars.—River Euphrates, by degrees. The kings of Assyria verified these predictions; and we know not what is become of these ten tribes. Calmet.—To provoke. These people did not perhaps design ( Bible.) to make God their enemy, no more than their king did, verse 9. But their actions had that effect. Such expressions denote not the final cause, but the sequel of other facts, without direct intention. Worthington.—Yet these sins might probably be called sins of malice. Bible.—They were all involved in ruin, and because they had been accomplices in wickedness. Menochius.
That is, the Euphrates.