Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 17:2

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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While their children remember their altars - Perhaps an allusion to their sacrifices of children to Moloch. Present perhaps at some such blood-stained rite, its horrors would be engraven forever upon the memory. Groves - “Asherahs,” i. e., wooden images of Astarte (see Exodus 34:13 note). return to 'Top of Page'

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