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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 44:23
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And because ye have burnt incense, etc.] Not to Jehovah, but to the queen of heaven; which they owned they did, and determined they would; asserting it was better with them when they did it than when they omitted it; for which reason the prophet particularly mentions it, and assigns it as the cause of the present ruin and destruction of their land, city, and temple: and because ye have sinned against the Lord; by worshipping idols; all sin is against the Lord, but especially idolatry: and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord; by his prophets, who cautioned them against idolatry, reproved them for it, and told them what would be the consequence of it; but this they hearkened not unto, which was an aggravation of their sin: nor walked in his law; the moral law, according to it; which is a rule of walk and conversation: nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; as not in the moral law, so neither in the ceremonial law, and the rites of that; nor in the judicial law, and the testifications of the will of God in either of them: therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day: that is, the desolation on their land, as in (<244423>Jeremiah 44:23).
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