Children ... fathers ... women - All members of the family take part in this idolatry.

Cakes - Probably very similar to those …

The queen of heaven. —The goddess so described was a kind of Assyrian Artemis, identified with the moon, and connected with the sy…

Here God first shows why he ought to be implacable towards the people. The command to the Prophet not to pray for them seems at first hearing to be…

The children gather wood
In the fields, or out of the neighbouring forest; not little children, but young men, who w…

The Jews took pride in showing zeal for their idols. Let us learn to be earnest in the service of our God, even from this bad example. Let us think…

1. Here, he excludes the remedy of prayer.

   First, he presents the decree: neither take up, even when asked by them, an…