have estranged have refused to recognise its claims.

they and their fathers and the kings of Judah rather, as LXX, they and their fathers; and the kings of Judah have filled, etc., generalizing from Manasseh's acts (2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4).

innocents not children, the sacrifice of whom is first mentioned in the next verse, but in general innocent persons slain in persecution or by malversation of justice.

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