14. I am married--literally, "I am Lord," that is, husband to you
(so
Jer 31:32;
compare
Ho 2:19, 20;
Isa 54:5).
GESENIUS, following the Septuagint version
of
Jer 31:32,
and Paul's quotation of it
(Heb 8:9),
translates, "I have rejected you"; so the corresponding
Arabic, and the idea of lordship, may pass into that of
looking down upon, and so rejecting. But the
Septuagint in this passage translates, "I will be Lord
over you." And the "for" has much more force in English Version
than in that of GESENIUS. The Hebrew
hardly admits the rendering though [HENGSTENBERG].
take you one of a city--Though but one or two Israelites were in
a (foreign) city, they shall not be forgotten; all shall be restored
(Am 9:9).
So, in the spiritual Israel, God gathers one convert here, another
there, into His Church; not the least one is lost
(Mt 18:14;
Ro 11:5;
compare
Jer 24:5-7).
family--a clan or tribe.
JFB.
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