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Jeremiah 2:11

Jeremiah 2:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Hath a nation changed their gods? Has any heathen nation ever changed its idol-god for another? The prophet clearly implies a negative answer; and yet it must be admitted that the adoption of a new religion, under the pressure of conquest or a higher foreign civilization is not an unknown phenomenon in the ancient world.

Glory; i.e. source of all outward prosperity (comp. ," my Glory, and the Lifter up Of my head"). Religion was, in fact, the root of national life in antiquity; contrast our own division between the sacred and the secular Jehovah elsewhere receives the title "the Pride of Israel"—Authorized Version, rather weakly, "the Excellency of Israel"—(; .

Comp. the parallel passages, ; ).

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