For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
Ver. 9. For the people were numbered, and, behold, &c.] God will one day send out summonses for sleepers; he will make strict inquisition for such as affect an indifferency and neutrality in religion, as halt between two, as are neither hot nor cold, as redeem their peace with the loss of truth. The Lord that could not endure miscellane-seed nor linsey-woolsey in Israel, can less endure that his people should be as a "speckled bird," Jer 12:9 here of one colour, and there of another; or as a doughy baked cake. Hos 7:4-8 None so loathsome to him, as those that are of a Laodicean temper.