And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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Gill's Exposition
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,.... At Sinai and Horeb, see Exo 24:8,
and his testimonies which he testified against them; calling heaven and earth…
Barnes' Notes
As idols are “vanity” and “nothingness,” mere weakness and impotence, so idolators are “vain” and impotent. Their energies have been wasted, their time misspent; they have missed the real object of…
Though the destruction of the kingdom of the ten tribes was but briefly related, it is in these verses largely commented upon by our historian, and the reasons of it assigned, not taken from the…
Cambridge Bible
he testified against[R.V. unto] them See above on verse 13.
they followed vanity -Vanity" is constantly employed in Scripture of false gods. They are nothing and can do nothing. Therefore to have…
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