Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 19:13
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Jeremiah19:13
13. shall be defiled--with dead bodies (Jr 19:12; 2Ki 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 (Jr 32:29; 2Ki 23:11, 12; Zep 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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