Verse 42
42. God turned Averted himself and gave them up.
The host of heaven Literally, the army of heaven; the body of stars are so styled, being, as it were, a countless host marshalled in the sky. As the Israelites had run after bullock-worship, God abandoned them to run into star-worship also.
In the book of the prophets The book of the minor prophets, which are spoken of as a separate volume. The quotation is from Amos 5:25-26. The question asked, Have ye offered me slain beasts forty years? does not imply necessarily, or perhaps truly, a negative reply. It is not equivalent to an affirmation that during the forty years Israel had not offered sacrifice to God. The import of the question and the retort in the following verse is this: Have you offered thus long sacrifices to me, the true God? Yes, to be sure, but you have worshipped the false gods also.
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