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The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn`t Yahweh remember them, and didn`t it come into his mind?
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God Turns Excuses Around
Commentators explain that Jeremiah masterfully refutes the people's excuse. They argued that their ancestors practiced this idolatry. Jeremiah's rhetorical question confirms that God did indeed 'remember' their ancestors' sins, and the current destruction is the direct result of that long-standing rebellion. The very tradition they cited as justification was the cause of their judgment.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Them — The various acts of idolatry involved in burning incense to an image.
19th Century
Anglican
Then Jeremiah said ... —The prophet makes an effective rejoinder to the assertion that the prosperity of past years had coincided …
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet refutes the impious objections with which the Jews had attempted to subvert his doctrine and make it contemptible. He then turns agains…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
That incense that you burnt in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem To false gods, to the queen of heaven…
Whatever evil comes upon us, it is because we have sinned against the Lord; we should therefore stand in awe, and sin not.
Since they were d…
