Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 3:2
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Jeremiah3:2
2. high places--the scene of idolatries which were spiritual adulteries.
In ... ways ... sat for them--watching for lovers like a prostitute (Ge 38:14, 21; Pr 7:12; 23:28; Eze 16:24, 25), and like an Arab who lies in wait for travellers. The Arabs of the desert, east and south of Palestine, are still notorious as robbers.
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