Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
Ver. 14. Let now our rulers of all the congregation] Our sanhedrim or seventy seniors, see Deuteronomy 17:9. Let there be a matrimonial consistory erected, and matters in question orderly heard and determined.
Until the fierce wrath of God] We must not think that he will cease pursuing us till the traitor's head be thrown over the wall, till there be a thorough reformation. One Abimelech, left alive, may be the death of Gideon's 70 sons; so may one sin favoured be thine utter undoing.