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Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Fat kine. He means the great ones that lived in plenty and wealth, ( Challoner.) and without restraint, (Isaiah 15:5. Jeremiah 46:20. Calmet.) having no compassion for the poor. Worthington.—The women who had too great an ascendency over their husbands, like Jezabel, may also be meant. Theod. Grot.—In many parts of the East the women affect being fat.
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