Verse 13
13. shall be defiled—with dead bodies (Jeremiah 19:12; 2 Kings 23:10).
because of all the houses—Rather, (explanatory of the previous "the houses . . . and . . . houses"), "even all the houses," c. [CALVIN].
roofs—being flat, they were used as high places for sacrifices to the sun and planets (Jeremiah 32:29 2 Kings 23:11; 2 Kings 23:12; Zephaniah 1:5). The Nabateans, south and east of the Dead Sea, a nation most friendly to the Jews, according to STRABO, had the same usage.
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