For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore pray not thou for this people,.... If for a remnant among them, yet not for the body of the people; and if for their spiritual and eternal good, yet not for their temporal salvation; their…
Barnes' Notes
That shameful thing - i. e., Baal; public establishment of idolatry, such as actually took place in the reign of Manasseh (2Ch 33:3. Contrast 2Ki 18:4).
This paragraph, which contains so much of God's wrath, might very well be expected to follow upon that which goes next before, which contained so much of his people's sin. When God found so much evil…
Gi. from considerations of style makes these vv. the work of a later hand. The last two vv. much resemble ch. Jer 2:27 f.
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