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Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Isn’t the LORD among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Verse 11. Hire. It is not lawful to refuse instruction to those who have nothing; nor must priests act solely for a temporal reward, though reason shews that they should be supported by those whom they have to teach. Matthew 10:8, 10. Galatians 6:6 and 1 Timothy 5:18. Calmet.—The judges grew rich by other people’s quarrels; and, as all ranks offended, they were justly involved in ruin. verse 12. Worthington.
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