Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
handfuls--expressing the paltry gain for which they bartered immortal souls (compare Micah 3:5, Micah 3:11; Hebrews 12:16). They "polluted" God by making His name the cloak under which they uttered falsehoods.
among my people--an aggravation of their sin, that they committed it "among the people" whom God had chosen as peculiarly His own, and among whom He had His temple. It would have been a sin to have done so even among the Gentiles, who knew not God; much more so among the people of God (compare Proverbs 28:21).
slay . . . souls that should not die, etc.--to predict the slaying or perdition of the godly whom I will save. As true ministers are said to save and slay their hearers, according to the spirit respectively in which these receive their message (2 Corinthians 2:15-16), so false ministers imitate them; but they promise safety to those on the broad way to ruin and predict ruin to those on the narrow way of God.
my people that hear your lies--who are therefore wilfully deceived, so that their guilt lies at their own door (John 3:19).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ezekiel 13:18
Amos 2:6
Amos 7:12
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