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It happened through the lightness of her prostitution, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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The Danger of Trivializing Sin
Commentators explain that the phrase "lightness of her whoredom" suggests Judah treated its grave sin of idolatry with levity, as if it were a trivial matter. Scholars like Ellicott and Gill note that what God considers profound betrayal, the people saw as insignificant. This serves as a warning against becoming casual or desensitized to sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Lightness - Others render this as in the margin.
Defiled - Rather, profaned. The land especially consecrated to Yahweh’s servi…
19th Century
Anglican
The lightness of her whoredom. —Lightness in the ethical sense of “levity.” Apostasy was treated once more as if it had been a lig…
Baptist
And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
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16th Century
Protestant
Here the Prophet completes his charge: the punishment God inflicted on the Israelites had so little effect on the tribe of Judah that she surpassed…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass, through the lightness of her whoredom , &c.] Or the "swiftness" F2 of it; when it was once set…
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, the prophet calls them back using the example of the ten tribes, and on this subject, he makes three points.
He gives an exa…
