there shall ye serve other gods The original thought of Jehovah as a national Deity led to the feeling that change of country involved a loss of His protection. Cp. Judges 11:24; 1 Samuel 26:19. "Large numbers of the exiles probably felt that the destruction of the State had snapped the tie which bound them to Yahweh." Pe.

for perhaps as mg. where.

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