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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 2:23 - 2:23
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(Pro 30:12).
Baalim - plural, to express manifold excellency: compare Elohim.
see - consider.
the valley - namely, of Hinnom, or Tophet, south and east of Jerusalem: rendered infamous by the human sacrifices to Moloch in it (compare Jer 19:2, Jer 19:6, Jer 19:13, Jer 19:14; Jer 32:35; see on Isa 30:33).
thou art - omit. The substantive that follows in this verse (and also that in Jer 2:24) is in apposition with the preceding “thou.”
dromedary - rather, a “young she-camel.”
traversing - literally, “enfolding”; making its ways complicated by wandering hither and thither, lusting after the male. Compare as to the Jews’ spiritual lust, Hos 2:6, Hos 2:7.