23How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? …
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. …
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here, I. The sin itself that he charges them with—idolatry, that great provocation which they were so notoriously guilty of. 1. They frequented the places of idol-worship (Jer. 2:20): “ Upon every high hill and under every green tree , in the high places and the groves, such as the heathen had a foolish fo…
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