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So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their engraved images; their children likewise, and their children`s children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.
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The Danger of Mixed Worship
Commentators emphasize that attempting to combine the worship of the true God with worldly practices or idols is spiritually dangerous. Charles Spurgeon calls this mixture "most loathsome" in God's sight, while Matthew Henry describes it as a "feigned submission" that vainly tries to reconcile God's service with the love of the world.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Their graven images - The Babylonians appear to have made very sparing use of animal forms among their religious emblems. They represented t…
19th Century
Anglican
So these nations feared ... images. —A variation of 2 Kings 17:33.
Their children, and thei…
Baptist
Trying, as far as ever they could, to link the old idolatries with the worship of the true God, which is the most loathsome in the sight of Most Hi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images Just in like manner …
The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men, like those brought from different countries to…
