According to the number of thy cities... — This and Jeremiah 11:12 reproduce what we have heard already in Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 7:17. The “shameful thing” is, as in Jeremiah 3:24, the image of Baal, which would seem to have been set up openly in some prominent place in every city of Judan, every street of Jerusalem. The reference is probably made, as before, to the formal recognition of Baal-worship in the days of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:3; 2 Chronicles 33:3), but the sin may have been repeated as soon as the restraint of Josiah’s reign had been removed.

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