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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 44:9
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, etc.] And what judgments it brought upon them; meaning not their more remote ancestors in the wilderness, and the idolatry they committed, and the punishment inflicted upon them for it; but more near, such who lived a little before the destruction of Jerusalem, and whose sins had brought on that; and therefore could not be easily forgotten by them; or, if they were forgotten, it argued great stupidity: and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives; by whom they were drawn into idolatry, particularly Solomon; and it is in the original text, “the wickedness of his wives”f793; and Dr. Lightfoot thinks respect is had to Solomon’s wives; but it may be understood distributively of everyone of their wives, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret itf794: and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which you have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? where they had built altars, and worshipped strange gods, they, and their wives, as well as those who were carried captive; and which were the cause of all those evils that came upon them; these, being recent things, could not be forgotten by them; or however should have been remembered, and that so as to have deterred them from going into such practices again, as they now did in Egypt.
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