10. grieved--displeased. Compare "walk contrary,"
Le 26:24, 28.
that generation--"that" implies alienation and
estrangement. But the oldest manuscripts read, "this."
said--"grieved," or "displeased," at their first offense.
Subsequently when they hardened their heart in unbelief still more, He
sware in His wrath
(Heb 3:11);
an ascending gradation (compare
Heb 3:17, 18).
and they have not known--Greek, "But these very persons,"
&c. They perceived I was displeased with them, yet they, the same
persons, did not a whit the more wish to know my ways [BENGEL]; compare "but they,"
Ps 106:43.
not known my ways--not known practically and believingly the
ways in which I would have had them go, so as to reach My rest
(Ex 18:20).
JFB.
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