Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
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Gill's Exposition
Which think to cause my people to forget my name,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "my law". The word and worship of God; from which men are drawn off by false teachers, and are in a…
Barnes' Notes
To his neighbor - i. e., to one another, to the people about him, to anyone. As their fathers ... - Rather, “as their fathers forgot My name through Baal.” The superstition which attaches importance…
Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.…
Cambridge Bible
to forget my name not literally, but to forget the essential character of Him who bears the name. So their fathers confused Baal with Jehovah. See on Jer 2:23. The nature of the sin was the…
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