John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 6:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, etc.] In Persia or Arabia, from whence incense was brought, and perhaps the best; (see <236006>Isaiah 60:6), and yet the offering of this was of no esteem with God, when the words of the prophet, and the law of his mouth, were despised; (see <230113>Isaiah 1:13): and the sweet cane from a far country? either from the same place, Sheba, which was a country afar off, (<290308>Joel 3:8), or from India, as Jerom interprets it; this was one of the spices in the anointing oil, (<023023>Exodus 30:23) and though this was of divine appointment, and an omission of it is complained of, (<234324>Isaiah 43:24) yet when this was brought with a hypocritical heart, and to atone for neglects of the moral law, and sins committed against that, it was rejected by the Lord: your burnt, offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me: being offered up with a wicked mind, and without faith in Christ, and in order to expiate the guilt of black crimes unrepented of, and continued in; they were not grateful to God, nor could he smell a sweet savour in them, but loathed and abhorred them; (see <230111>Isaiah 1:11).

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