And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
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Gill's Exposition
But they set their abominations,.... Their idols, which were abominable to the Lord, and ought to have been so to them: these they placed
in the house (which is called by my name), to defile it; in…
The answer is divided into two parts; (a) Jer 32:26-35, the sins of Judah are shown to be the cause of her punishment: (b) Jer 32:36-44, this punishment was not for Judah’s destruction, but for her…
We have here God's answer to Jeremiah's prayer, designed to quiet his mind and make him easy; and it is a full discovery of the purposes of God's wrath against the present generation and the purposes…
Cambridge Bible
though I taught them, etc.] This verb and the two participles following are infinitives in the Heb. (as in ch. Jer 7:9, where see note), and there was a teaching of them, etc.
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