I took them by the hand See note on Hebrews 2:16.

because they continued not in my covenant The disobedience of the Israelites was a cause for nullifying the covenant which they had transgressed (Judges 2:20-21; 2 Kings 17:15-18). Comp. Hosea 1:9, "Ye are not my people, and I will not be your God."

and I regarded them not These words correspond to the "though I was a husband unto them" of the original. The quotation is from the LXX., who perhaps followed a slightly different reading. Rabbi Kimchi holds that the rendering of the LXX. is justifiable even with the present reading.

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