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and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
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Copying Condemned Cultures
Commentators highlight that Israel's sin was not original; they were directly imitating the incense burning and other religious rites of the Canaanite nations God had driven out before them. John Gill notes that by adopting the sins of the Canaanites, they invited the same judgment of exile.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The burning of incense was a common religious practice among the Egyptians and the Babylonians; and from the present passage, we gather that the Ca…
19th Century
Anglican
Wrought wicked things. —Not merely idolatrous rites, but also the hideous immoralities which constituted a recognized part of the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And there they burnt incense in all the high places As even the tribe of Judah did, which is observed in all the pre…
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