Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skins from off them,.... Like cannibals, flay them alive, and then eat their flesh: this signifies, as before, devouring their substance, only expressed in terms which still more set forth their savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, and cruelty.
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Micah 3:3
Micah 3:3
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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