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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 78:36
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they served their idols, etc.] Of gold and silver, wood and stone; the works of men’s hands, senseless creatures; which are nothing in the world, and bring grief and sorrow to the worshippers of them, from whence they have their name here given them; (see <191604>Psalm 16:4). They served “their” idols, the idols of the Canaanites, who were dispossessed of their land for their idolatries and other sins; and these Israelites were put in their place. They served those which they were ordered to destroy; they who knew the true God, whose servants they were, or ought to have been, and professed to be, and were so called; and yet served the idols of the nations driven out before them. Which were a snare unto them; either the Canaanites were, who were left in the land, with whom they mixed, and whose works they learned; these ensnared them, and drew them into idolatry, (<062313>Joshua 23:13), or the idols they worshipped, which were the cause of many evils and calamities, (<070203>Judges 2:3), or the act of serving and worshipping them, (<022333>Exodus 23:33 <050716>Deuteronomy 7:16). They were by these means like a bird or beast in a snare, and brought into trouble and distress, out of which they could not extricate themselves.
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