very weighty Reaſons,
0urs, not Mine. : 22 Though \car-oferings U , | will [ regard the || peace-offerings y of your far beaſts Z. +, « That have departed from my Temple, Law and Inftitutions, you of the Ten Tribes. r Which was wholly burnt on the Altar 5 no part due £0 any but God : of tnis theſe Hypocrites had a high Eſteem, Miz4þ 6. 6. becauſe they accounted it an entire Gift to God. « To our Burnt-offering add the other, yonr Meat-offering alſo, as Lev.2. {. 2. Numb. 617. vid. Foel 1. 13. and 2.14. x It may be a Meiolis, 1 vill, 25 V2r. 21. hate them. y Your Thank-offerings too, of which 1ev.6.12, & 7-15+ Jonr Praiſes for your Proſperity is no better pleaſing neither. 7 In theſe Peace offerings, though you bring the beſt, the (atteſt, yet you bring nothing but a Beaft, for you leave your Hearts wich your Sins, and you have no warrant from God to do this, nay, you are prohibited, for you are to offer only as #2ruſulem, and at the Temple. | : 23 Take thou away from me the noiſe a of thy
Songs b ; for 1 will not hear c the melody 4 of thy
| Viols e. y 1 By way of Contempt.and Loathing, God calls their Song3 noe ; how harmenious, delightful and raviſhing ſoever they might be to their Ears, they were not pleaſing unto God, 5 Uſed in their Sa- crifices , aad their ſolemn Feaſts z herein they imitated Temple- worſtip, bur all was unpleaſing to the Lord, c This is not to be
| taken abſolutely, for God heard the Noiſe ; but *cis taken in a qualif-
ed Sen{e, he did not hear with Delight and Acceptance, _ 4 The pleaſing Harmony, the ſweet Concents, e This one kind of Muſical
Inftrument put for all the reft; in a word, your Hypocriſy, Idolatry
| 2nd Injuftice ſpoils all your Services,and makes God weary of you and
them.
24 But f let Judgment g, run down as Waters b, and | Righreouineis 7 as a mighty ſtream k. | # 4d, Hebr, g Some interpret this of Penal Judgment, by God © threatned againft theſe Hypocrites z but *ris better underftood of Ju- © fiice to be adminiftred by Rulers, whoſe Othce *twas to determine © berwecn Party and Party. þ Freely, conftantly, ſpeedily, and for # common Benefit of all, as Waters run. 7 Equity, relieving Juftice, Ethe want of which hath been notorious among you. kt Which bears down all that oppoſeth it ; be hindred by none from doing every one right, do this and you may yet be accepted.
25 * Have ye offered m unto me # Sacrifices o, and Ofterings p in the Wilderneſs forty years q, O houſe of Iirael r 2 |
I Their Fathers and they, though at ſo great diftance of time, are Ne People 3 and ſo the Prophet conſiders them in this place. m Did you not frequently omit to offer, and yet were not reproved or pla- ud for the Omiſhon, when your frequent Removes, and many 0- :< Ditficulties, made. it unpratticable z ſo little is Sacrifice with your &«!' and yet when you did offer, 2 Was it to me only, or did you W': [acrifice to Idols and falfe Gods, and provoked me ? Will-wor- bard Idolatry have been hereditary Diſeaſes in your Generations z 0715 well kaown too, that theſe Idolaters fell in the Wilderneſs, ware made Admonitions to you. o Of Bzafts ſlain, as the word p-opzrly ſpeaks. p Minchah in general, is any Gift or Preſent made z ju particularly here, it is a Gift or Preſent of fine Flour, Oil and rankincenſe, unto God with the Sacrifice» q It was a broken number jf Years in exatt account ; that is, 38 Arn. and 11 Months ; but as 1s ommon in ſuch Caſes, the full and round number 1s taken, and ſo the _ runs here, and in As 7. 42. forty Years. 7 You of the Ten [1)eS,
.26 But ye 5 have bornt || the Tabernacle 4 sf your
loloch x, and Chivn y, your Images z, the ſtar of your
od a_ which ye made to your ſelves b.
5 The Idolatrous Children of Idolatrous Fathers. t Carried along Fith you in the Wildernefs, « Or little Chappel, - or Shrine, or anopy in which the Image of their Idol was placed : Though chers conjeRture this to be the proper Name of an Idol, I conjefture is the Name of the portable Temple, or Chappel in which the
I will not accept them x; neither
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ws WPpolſed Deity was placed. x The great Idol of the Ammonites, as m priter was of the Greeks and Romans ; Some antient King among ww em, who was a famous Founder, or Raiſer and Benefattor to their int ation, though we know not who this was. / Perhaps it we under- 12 and the whole Apparatus, or Store-houſe of their Images, we ſhall = IL err: Their grand Idol was Moloch, whoſe Image they kept, yo d carried about in a Sacellum, or conſecrated portable © happel,
1 with him the reft of their petit Deities, in their Images placed T derly, as they fancied, abour their great Deity z others will have S, "unto be Sarurm, 73 Whate're theſe were, 'tis plain God accounts IN Km their Inventions, and their Gods 4 What Star this was we
ed not enquirez the 1dolaters appropriated the Stars to their ical ds, and probably did in the Roof o* their Gods Tabzraacles, frame de- © Sar over the Image ef their God z or the Star your God, or
lich you worſhip. 5 All which Deities you have found out, and vill J Wlithed to your ſelves.
27 Therefore c will I cauſe you to go into captivity d
and Yond Damaſcus e, faith the LORD, whoſe name 7 rhe vim, "AO of hoſts,
chef F For All your Idolatry,and othet Sins,in which you have obſtinate- | 2 @Ninued. 4 you ſhall certainly be ſubdued and captivaredy and
> Mall be done, ſo that my hand ſhall appear evidently in it. c In-
jel. 1y712,and into parts beyond Damaſcus z but 'Tis not certain into ngft a Corners of the World they were ſent, but probably to thoſe their $ that lay about the Caſpian Sea 3 more remote from their own ands try, than ever to hope they may get back again ; Or thts, you ſhi, LI Carried into a C aptivity more grievous, by Sha/mane/ er, than
the Captivity of thoſe whom Tiglath Pileſer 1ed captive when he Rn, took Damaſcus, and waſked 1/razl in the days of Pekab, when
ye s offer me burat-offerings ?, and your
_ pa . E . FR Fo 4 , ! 0 PF ; 4 S. oy with rich Sacrifices, in mighty Crowds, and in excellent Order all is : 8rievous Captivity.
named * || chief of the NationsFf;, to whom the Iſrael cameg.