In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands,.... Their sinful actions, particularly their idolatry, by worshipping images, the works of men's hands; and though it was the queen of heaven they worshipped, which their hands made not, yet it was before images they did that; besides, the things they did to her were the worlds of their hands, as sacrificing, pouring out drink offerings, and as follows:burning incense; which they did, not only to her, butto other gods in the land of Egypt; where they were very numerous:whither ye be gone to dwell; against the express will and command of God:that ye might cut yourselves off; as from the worship of God, so from being his people, and from being under his care and protection, and from all privileges temporal and spiritual:and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
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Jeremiah 44:8
Jeremiah 44:8
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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