Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 6:20

20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

An interrogation of expostulation, and contempt wherein God by the Prophet meets with their Hypocrisie, who pleased themselves with their outward Oblations and Sacrifices, and thought God would be pleased with them too, but he tells them plainly, they are to no purpose, as he speakes particularly in the close of the verse, chap. 7.21, 22. Ezek. 20.39.

That this was the product of Sheba a Country in Arabia Faelix, to which Country Frankincense was peculiar, see on Isa. 60.6.

Or Cane, i. e. good, or the best cane, the article [non-Latin text not transcribed] hath the force of a superlative for Cane that is good, the Hebrews have no degrees of comparison: the same that is mentioned as an ingredient in the holy Oyl, Exod. 30.23. See Isa. 43.24.

Not likely to attone me, they will not be for acceptance, I cannot take delight in them, Hos. 9.4. as the next expression, q. d. away with these childish trifles, whereby you think to pacifie me. By these species he understands the whole legal worship.

Not that it was brought from the remotest parts, of the world as from India, as some, for it was known to the Iews in Moses his time, Exod. 30.23. but because it grew not in their own land, but was fetched or brought to them from Sheba, I[illegible: 1 letter]a. 60.6. where it did grow, as Diodorus testifies, lib. 3. p. 125. and Strabo, lib. 16. 1 King. 10.2. compared with Ioel 3.8. who is called the Queen of the South, and to come from the uttermost parts of the Earth, Matth. 12.42. because the South Sea did bound the Country, to what purpose art thou at this trouble, and charge to fetch these ingredients for thy incense?

Marginal references: Is[illegible: 1 letter]. 1 11. and 66.3. Amos 5.21. Mich. 6.6. &c▪