The Eighth Commandment

Exodus 20.15

“You shall not steal.”

The Seventh Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (12)

Deuteronomy 24.1-4

¹“When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, ² when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife, ³ if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, ⁴ then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

The Seventh Commandment: Statutes and Precepts (11)

Leviticus 18.22

“‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.’”

The censors need to work on consistency.

A message of hope in the face of judgment.

God does not give up on His covenant.

The opposite of glory is shame.

Be careful where you rest your heart.

Assyria would be the new Egypt.

Israel was about to reap the whirlwind.

Israel's problem was that she chose her way rather than God's.

Contemplation is the right precursor to action.