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Jeremiah 19:4

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Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know—they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah—and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

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Verse 4. Profaned. Lit. “rendered strange.” Bible.—I have no farther regard for it.—Innocents: their own children. verse 5. Calmet. 7:31.

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