The suppression of this popular idolatry had apparently been regarded with much ill-will in Josiah’s time, and many may even have ascribed to it hi…

To burn incense to the queen of heaven.— This form of worship, characterized especially by its offerings of crescent-shaped cakes,…

Here he enlarges on their ingratitude: they attributed to God the fault of all their calamities, even though God would have drawn them (as the Prop…

But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, &c.] Or were restrained from it, as the Targum, through the…

These daring sinners do not attempt excuses, but declare they will do what is forbidden. Those who disobey God commonly grow worse and worse, and t…