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“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
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Verse 5. Assyrians. That is, the idols of the Assyrians: for all that is said in this chapter of the fornications of Israel and Juda, is to be understood in a spiritual sense of their disloyalty to the Lord, by worshipping strange gods. Challoner. Worthington.—The Assyrians taught the worship of Baal, the high places, and so forth The Egyptians also promoted their abominations. Calmet.
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