“Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
The verdict that YHWH destines the unfaithful for slaughter and will call them who did not respond, did not listen, and did evil in divine sight establishes judgment for those who reject covenant. The specific charge of not responding and not listening indicates willful rejection. The identification of evil-doing as refusal to listen places moral failure in the covenantal relationship. The slaughter-language indicates absolute judgment. The verse consolidates the judgment pronounced on the syncretistic elements of the community. This verse's finality suggests that covenant refusal admits no remedy.
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