Verse 21
21. How long halt ye between two opinions Septuagint: How long limp ye on both your knees? That is, how long will ye totter and waver in your religious walk, now this side and then that, not knowing whether it be better to serve Jehovah or Baal, but rather trying to keep on good terms with both. Clarke, after some of the older interpreters, translates, How long hop ye about on two boughs? and explains the metaphor as taken from birds hopping about from bough to bough, not knowing on which to settle. “They dreaded Jehovah, and, therefore, could not totally abandon him; they feared the king and queen, and, therefore, thought they must embrace the religion of the State. Their conscience forbade them doing the former; their fear of man persuaded them to do the latter; but in neither were they heartily engaged.” So they answered him not a word.
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