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The death of men, both good and bad, is oft called a
sleep, because they shall certainly awake out of it by resurrection. See Psa_76:5 Dan_12:2 1Th_4:13, &c.; 2Pe_3:4. This people will go a whoring: God certainly foresees all things to come, yea, even those which depend upon the wills of men, or contingencies of the things, as this unquestionably did.
Of the strangers of the land, i.e. of the Canaanites, who now are possessors, but shortly will be turned out of their possessions, and become as strangers in their own land. This aggravates their folly, to worship such gods as could neither preserve their friends, nor annoy their enemies.