In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
Those that leap on the threshold - the servants of the princes who, after having gotten prey, like hounds for their masters, leap exultingly on their masters' thresholds; or on the thresholds of the houses which they break into (Calvin). Jerome explains it of those who walk up the steps into the sanctuary with haughtiness. Rosenmuller translates, 'leap over the threshold;' namely, in imitation of the Philistine custom of not treading on the threshold, which arose from the head and hands of Dagon being cut off on the threshold before the ark (1 Samuel 5:5). Compare Isaiah 2:6, "Thy people ... are soothsayers like the Philistines." Calvin's view agrees best with the latter clause of the verse. But I incline to think, from the context, that an idolatrous rite is here stigmatized, such as either "leaping over" or on х `al (H5921)] "the threshold" of the idol-temple, as the priests of Baal "leaped upon [margin, up and down at. But the Hebrew is the same as here, `al (H5921)] the altar which was made."
Which fill their masters' houses with violence ... - i:e., with goods obtained with violence.