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John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 13:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, etc.] As of the Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Phoenicians: nigh unto thee; as the above were, being on the borders of their land: the Targum of Jonathan interprets this of the idols of the seven nations, that is, of the land of Canaan: or far off from thee; as the Babylonians, Persians, and others: from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; which includes all the idols in the world, worshipped by whatsoever nation, and which were forbidden; and which shows the universality of idolatry in those times, and that that is an insufficient argument in its favour. Jarchi interprets this of the sun and moon, and the host of heaven, who go from one end of the world to the other; and this seems to have been the first and most common idolatry of the Gentile world, and which were worshipped in the several deities they set up.
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