And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
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Gill's Exposition
The priests said not, where is the Lord?.... Whose business it was to draw nigh to God, and offer the sacrifices of the people, and inquire of God for them; whose lips should keep knowledge, and at…
Barnes' Notes
A plentiful country - literally, “a land of the Carmel,” a Carmel land (see 1Ki 18:19, note; Isa 29:17, note).
Here is, I. A command given to Jeremiah to go and carry a message from God to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He was charged in general (Jer 1:17) to go and speak to them; here he is particularly…
Cambridge Bible
a plentiful land lit. a land of the Carmel. The word Carmel properly means a piece of ground fertile and well-cultivated (Jer 4:26 R.V. mg.), but was commonly used as the actual name of one such spot…
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