And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
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Loved ... served ... walked ... sought ... worshipped - There is great force in the piled-up verbs by which their worship of the heavenly bo…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Whom they have loved ... —Here, again, there is a peculiar characteristic emphasis in the piling up, one upon another, of…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
At that time, says the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, …
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
I have said that Jeremiah repeats in the first verse what he had previously said—that the Jews would be deprived of their graves, so that there mig…
John Gill
JohnGill
And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all
the host of heaven
The …
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Though no real hurt can be done to a dead body, yet disgrace to the remains of wicked persons may alarm those yet alive; and this reminds us that t…
Thomas Aquinas
ThomasAquinas
Here, he threatens the exhumation of corpses.
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He speaks of the exhumation itself: they shall cast out the bones, believin…
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Albert Barnes
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