The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
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Gill's Exposition
The children gather wood,.... In the fields, or out of the neighbouring forest; not little children, but young men, who were able to cut down trees, and bear and carry burdens of wood:
and the…
Barnes' Notes
Children ... fathers ... women - All members of the family take part in this idolatry. Cakes - Probably very similar to those offered at Athens to Artemis. To the queen of heaven - A Persian and…
God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened. But there was…
Cambridge Bible
Both sexes and all ages unite in the public dishonouring of God's name by shameless idolatries.
cakes The Hebrew word is of Assyrio-Babylonian origin, and occurs elsewhere only in Jer 44:19, where see…
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