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But they have not regarded that which was foremost and most cardinal in the law. They hearkened not, sc. to my voice; and instead of walking in the ways commanded, they walked in the counsels of the stubbornness of their evil heart. בְּמֹעֵצֹות is stat. absol., and בִּשְׁרִרוּת is co-ordinated with it in apposition, instead of being subordinated; cf. Ew. §289, c. The lxx have not seen their way to admit such a co-ordination, and so have omitted the second term; and in this, Movers, Hitz., and Graf have followed them, deleting the word as a mere gloss. As to "the stubbornness of their evil heart," see on Jer 3:17. יִהְיוּ לְאָחֹור, they were backwards, not forwards, i.e., they so walked as to turn to me the back and not the face. הָיָה with לְ expresses the direction or aim of a thing. The subject to these clauses is the Israelites from the time of Moses down to that of Jeremiah. This is shown by the continuation of the same idea in Jer 7:25 and Jer 7:26. From the time the fathers were led out of Egypt till the present time, God has with anxious care been sending prophets to exhort and warn them; but they have not hearkened, they have made their neck hard, i.e., were stiffnecked, and did worse than their fathers, i.e., each succeeding generation did more wickedly than that which preceded it. On לְמִן הַיֹּום, (the period) from the day...until...cf. the remarks on Hag 2:18. The לְ gives to the mention of the time the value of an independent clause, to which that which is said regarding that time is joined by ו consec. יֹום is adverbial accusative: by the day, i.e., daily, in early morn, i.e., with watchful care sending (on this expression, see at Jer 7:13). יֹום acquires this sense, not in virtue of its standing for יֹום יֹום, but by reason of its connection with the two infinitives absoll.