For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever - rather, Though it be that all people walk after their several gods, yet we (the Jews in the dispersion) will walk in the name of the Lord. So the Hebrew particle means in margin, ; ; . The resolution of the exiled Jews is, Since Yahweh gives us hope of so glorious a restoration, notwithstanding the overthrow of our temple and nation, we must, in confident reliance on His promise, persevere in the true worship of Him, however the nations around, our superiors now in strength and numbers, walk after their gods (Rosenmuller). As the Jews were thoroughly weaned from idols by the Babylonian captivity, so they shall be completely cured of unbelief by their present long dispersion (Zechariah 10:8).

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