Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 42:6
evil—not moral evil, which God cannot command (James 1:13), but what may be disagreeable and hard to us. Piety obeys God, without questioning, at all costs. See the instance defective in this, that it obeyed only so far as was agreeable to itself (I Samuel 15:3, I Samuel 15:9, I Samuel 15:13-15, I Samuel 15:20-23).
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