Imagination, or stubbornness and obstinacy: see Jeremiah 7:24. Baalim: see Jeremiah 2:23. The prophet doth not charge them with new crimes, but with their tenacious sticking to their idolatry. Which their fathers taught them: see Jeremiah 7:18. It seems they might partly thank their education for it, as well as their own natural perverseness: hence we should learn to follow God's counsel in the Scriptures, and not blindly follow our fathers counsel, precepts, or examples, or our own will, which is the worst guide.

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