from their youth from their earliest times; cp. Hosea 11:1. In Jeremiah 2:2 the Exodus time is spoken of as the youth of Israel.

for the children … the Lord omitted in LXX and probably a gloss, for otherwise why should its reference, in spite of the preceding clause, be confined to the Northern tribes? "Israel" can hardly be used in the wide and restricted senses in the same v.

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