Behold, when it was whole it was meet for no work,.... Before it was cut into pieces, and east into the fire, it was not fit to make so much as a pin of to hang anything on; so Israel, when all together, before the ten tribes were carried captive, or the Jews before the captivity of Jeconiah, were useless and unfruitful, and to every good work reprobate:how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
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Ezekiel 15:5
Ezekiel 15:5
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