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Jeremiah 17:3

Jeremiah 17:3

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

O my mountain in the midst of the field,.... Meaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord's house, , or else Jerusalem, which stood on a hill in the midst of a plain, surrounded with fruitful fields and gardens; or in the midst of a land like a field.

The Targum is,"because thou worshippest idols upon the mountains in the field:''I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil; all the riches of the city and temple to be the spoil and plunder of the enemy;See Gill on "".

and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

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