As idols are “vanity” and “nothingness”—mere weakness and impotence—so idolaters are “vain” and impotent. Their energies have been wasted, their ti…

And they followed vanity, and became Vain. —The same expression occurs in Jeremiah 2:5. The word “vanity” (hèbel…

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers At Sinai and Horeb (see Exodus 24:8,[Ref…

Although the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was only briefly related, in these verses it is largely commented upon, and its reasons g…