Prophets were sent to be reprovers, to tell people of their faults, and to warn them of the judgments of God, to which by sin they exposed themselves; so the prophet is employed in this and the following chapters.

Here is, I. The court set, and both attendance and attention demanded: ” Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for to you is the word of this conviction sent, whether you will hear or whether you will forbear.” Whom may God expect to give him a fair hearing, and take from him a fair…

God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests when they had priests that did their duty; but the generality of them lived in the neglect of their duty, and here is a word for those priests, and for the…

In these verses we have, as before, I. The sins charged upon the people of Israel, for which God had a controversy with them, and they are, 1. Spiritual whoredom, or idolatry.