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Then shall you tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
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The Climax of Generational Sin
Commentators explain that God's severe judgment was not for a single mistake but for a deep-seated, generational pattern of sin. The people's ancestors began the apostasy by forsaking God for idols, and the current generation had continued and even worsened this rebellion. The judgment was the culmination of long-term, national unfaithfulness.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The severe sentence passed upon them is the consequence of idolatry persisted in through many generations until it has finally deepened into nation…
16th Century
Protestant
He shows here what we have seen elsewhere—that the people flattered themselves in their vices, so that they could not be turned by any admonitions,…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then shall you say to them In answer to their questions; not in a general way, but by observing to them particular s…
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This seems to be the language of those who dispute the word of God and, instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify themselves, as if Go…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the cause of the previously mentioned punishment.
First, he poses the question: why has the LORD spoken all this great…
