Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians , because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
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Gill's Exposition
Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan,.... Or, "with the land of Canaan" (l); with the inhabitants of it, doing the same evils, committing the same idolatries, as the old…
Barnes' Notes
Compare the marginal reference. Idolatry, spiritual adultery, invariably accompanied these unholy alliances, and brought with it disaster and ruin.
In these verses we have an account of the great wickedness of the people of Israel, especially in worshipping idols, notwithstanding the great favours that God had conferred upon them, by which, one…
Cambridge Bible
Infidelity with Assyria.
The historical tense "didst play" is better. Already Amo 5:26 appears to mention the names of Assyrian gods, for the passage can hardly refer to any time but his own. Jer…
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