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Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
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Shifting Political Alliances
Commentators explain that 'gadding about to change thy way' refers to Judah's unstable foreign policy. They constantly shifted their allegiance between the two regional superpowers, Egypt and Assyria, seeking protection from one and then the other. This political fickleness was a symptom of a deeper spiritual problem.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To change thy way - The rival parties at Jerusalem looked one to Assyria, the other to Egypt, for safety. As one or other for the t…
19th Century
Anglican
Why gaddest thou ...? —The vigorous English expresses well, perhaps even with some added force, the frequentative force o…
Baptist
First, they trusted in Assyria to save them; and when that broken reed failed them, then they trusted in Egypt. And in a similar fashion, we go fro…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet continues with the same subject. He had previously said that the people were like an unfaithful wife who, having left her husband, wand…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why do you gad about so much to change your way? &c.] Or, "by changing your way" F20 ; sometimes going on…
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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