16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. …
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-18)We have here a description of the apostasy of Israel from God, which would shortly come to pass, and to which already they had a disposition. One would have thought that a people under so many obligations to their God, in duty, gratitude, and interest, would never have turned from him; but, alas! they turned aside quickly . Here are two great instances of their wickedness, and each of them amounte…
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