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Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
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The Personification of Apostasy
Commentators note the original Hebrew for "backsliding Israel" is incredibly forceful. It's as if God is personifying the nation as Apostasy itself. This wasn't a momentary lapse but a habitual lifestyle of rebellion, as the verb tense suggests she "goes" continually to commit idolatry.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Backsliding Israel - The original is very strong: Have you seen Apostasy? i.e., Israel: as though Israel were the very personification of th…
19th Century
Anglican
The Lord said also unto me ... —The main point of the second prophecy (we might almost call it sermon), delivered, like the former, under …
Baptist
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every hi…
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet begins a new discourse: he relates what God had entrusted to him, and mentions the time, specifically in the reign of Josiah. It i…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord said also unto me, in the days of Josiah the king, &c.] For in his time Jeremiah began to prophesy, even in the …
If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dre…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he shows their contempt regarding sins of the mouth with the words behold you have spoken, which refers to words of pride. Regarding s…
