John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 2:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I brought you into a plentiful country, etc.] “Into the land of Carmel”, as in the Hebrew text; that is, “into the land of Israel, which was planted as Carmel,” as the Targum paraphrases it; with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olives; a land flowing with milk and honey, (<050808>Deuteronomy 8:8), so Ben Melech: to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; of vineyards and oliveyards, which they had not planted, and for which they had never laboured, (<062413>Joshua 24:13): but when ye entered ye defiled my land; which the Lord had chosen above all lands, where he would have a temple built for his worship, and where he would cause his Shechinah or glorious Majesty to dwell; but this they defiled by their sins and transgressions, and particularly by their idolatry, as follows: that made mine heritage an abomination; by devoting it to the worship of idols, as the Targum paraphrases it.

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