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But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
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Verse 17. The queen of heaven; the moon, which they worshipped under this name, ( Challoner.) as also under that of the Celestial Venus, (Theod.) Diana, and Isis. It seems the Jews had engaged by vow (verse 27) to restore her worship. Calmet.—The women more particularly adored the moon: yet all were guilty. Calmet. 7:18 and 4 Kennicott. 23:5. Worthington.
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