Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Also, all the leading priests and the people broke God's laws terribly, following all the disgusting practices of the foreign nations around them. They made the LORD's temple in Jerusalem—which He had made holy—unclean and impure.
The writer is describing how both the religious leaders and common people of Judah completely abandoned God's ways and corrupted His holy temple by adopting pagan worship practices.
📚 Historical Context
This verse describes the final period of the kingdom of Judah before the Babylonian exile (around 586 BC). The religious and political leaders had turned away from worshiping the one true God and instead adopted the idol worship and immoral practices of surrounding nations. This spiritual corruption extended even to defiling Solomon's temple, which was supposed to be the sacred center of Jewish worship.
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