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Chapter Ver. 21. Notwithftanting the Children reheJIed
XX. againft me.~\ See Numb. xxi. 5. xxv. 2. Dent. ix.
C/%*"\J 24. xxi*. 18, 19. xxxi. 27. *P/tf/. Ixxviii. 32.
Ver. 21. Ibid. 77^ polluted my Sabbaths.'] Profaning
the Sabbath and committing Idolatry are often
joined together : See Ver. 16, 24. Chap. xxii. 8, 9.
xxiii. 37,38. 1 Maccab. i. 45. one great End of
inttituting the Sabbath being topreferve the Jews
from falling into Idolatry. See Ver. 12.
Ibid. Then I [aid, I will four out my Fury upon
them, &c] God did punifh the Pofterity of that
rebellious Generation very feverely for their Sins,
particularly for their Idolatry aud Fornication in
the matter of Teor, Numb. xxv. 5, 9.
Ver. 23. Ver. 23. I lifted up my Hand unto them alfo in
the Wildernefs, that I would fcatter them among
the Heathen, &:c] St. Jerom obferves upon the
place, that we do not read of any particular Threatning
denounced againft the Children of that rebel-
Ver. 2