Jeremiah 11:13 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | RSV

For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah; and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to burn incense to Ba'al.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

That shameful thing - that is, Baal; public establishment of idolatry, such as actually took place in the reign of Manasseh ([Reference 2 C…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

According to the number of your cities ... —This and Jeremiah 11:12 reproduce what we have already heard in Jeremiah 2:27…

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century

Protestant

16th Century

The Prophet shows here that the Jews were not only polluted with one kind of superstition, but that they sought for themselves fictitious gods from…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O
Judah (See Gill on Jeremiah 2:28),

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares from which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars …

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century

Catholic

13th Century

Here, he threatens an inescapable punishment for incorrigible guilt.

He speaks of the punishment: behold I

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