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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 16:29
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan, &c.] Or, “with the land of Canaan”f225; with the inhabitants of it, doing the same evils, committing the same idolatries, as the old inhabitants of Canaan did; and so the Targum, “and thou hast multiplied thine idols, that thou mightest be joined to the people of Canaan:” or, “to the land of Canaan”f226; like to the land of Canaan; according to the abominations of the Canaanites, doing as they did. Jarchi takes the word Canaan to signify a “merchant”, as it does in (<281207>Hosea 12:7); and the land of Canaan to be the same with the land of Chaldea, called a land of traffic, and Babylon the city of merchants, (<261704>Ezekiel 17:4); since it follows, unto Chaldea: but the sense is, that the Jews were not content with the idolatries in the land of Canaan, but sent even to Chaldea, a remote country, to fetch new idols from thence; (see <262314>Ezekiel 23:14-16). The Targum is, “to walk in the laws of the Chaldeans;” their religious ones, their rites and ceremonies respecting idolatrous worship: and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith; but still wanted other idols and modes of worship; not being content with the gods of the Egyptians, nor of the Assyrians, nor of the Canaanites, nor of the Chaldeans.
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