30Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-32)Here the prophet goes on with the story of their rebellions, for their further humiliation, and shows, I. That they had persisted in them after they were settled in the land of Canaan. Though God had so many times testified his displeasure against their wicked courses, “yet in this (that is, in the very same thing) your fathers have blasphemed me , continued to affront me, that they also have tres…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.