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
In the late period of the Kingdom of Judah, around the 6th century BC, the nation was facing imminent judgment due to a long history of unfaithfulness to God's covenant. The chief priests and the people had increasingly adopted the idolatrous practices of the surrounding pagan nations, directly defying the commands given through Moses and the prophets. This pollution of the Temple in Jerusalem symbolized the broader spiritual decay that ultimately led to the Babylonian exile as God's disciplinary response.
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