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Nor inclined their ear: it notes something of a higher degree of non-attention than bare not hearkening, viz. their not listening that they might obey what they hear, Jer_7:26 11:8, noting not only their slightness, but their stiffness.
The imagination, or stubbornness. See Jer_3:17.
Went backward, and not forward, like restive beasts; see Jer_2:27; a sign of their contempt; implying either,
1. They were worse by their admonitions and corrections, and so nothing did thrive with them. Or,
2. From the very first they have gone further and further from me, as Jer_7:25,26.
3. Or else depending upon their outward services, they set not my commands before their eyes, but cast my true worship behind their backs, Mat_23:23.