In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
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Gill's Exposition
In thee have they discovered their father's nakedness,.... Or, "he discovered" (b), or "uncovered", it being in the singular number; though the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental…
Barnes' Notes
Set apart for pollution - Or, “unclean by reason of impurity” Lev 12:2.
Adam Clarke
In thee have they discovered - They are guilty of the most abominable incest and unnatural lust.
On thee have they humbled - In their unholy and unnatural connexions, they have not abstained from…
In these verses the prophet by a commission from Heaven sits as a judge upon the bench, and Jerusalem is made to hold up her hand as a prisoner at the bar; and, if prophets were set over other…
Cambridge Bible
Lev 18:7; Lev 20:11, defiled their father's wife, i.e. their stepmother, or some of their father's concubines; cf. 2Sa 16:22.
set apart for pollution unclean from her impurity, ch. Eze 18:6; Lev…
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