9:4
Under the Law you were unclean if you touched a dead body. So when someone in your family died you had to eat separate from others and could not go to the temple for a while. This is what eating the “bread of mourners” meant, and this is what it would be like for Israel. Indeed, this judgement upon them lasted for hundreds of years, for even in New Testament times Samaria was considered unclean be most of Israel, they had to eat by themselves.
9:5,6
The Israelites thought they were in control of worship. They held the feasts, they offered the sacrifices. We are in grave danger whenever we imagine that we are in charge, instead of being people who are led by the word of God and the Spirit. They would realise how little they were in control when they were taken away, other nations would have a hold over their lives. Life would be miserable for them.
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