“Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:”
God's declaration that he will send fire upon Judah because of the rejection of the law of the LORD and the failure to keep his statutes, with lies leading them astray, represents judgment against the Southern Kingdom for covenant unfaithfulness and the abandonment of God's revelation. The reference to law and statutes indicates that Judah has deliberately rejected the explicit covenant stipulations that God revealed at Sinai and maintains through the prophetic tradition. The phrase about lies leading them astray suggests that false prophecy and deceptive theology have corrupted Judah's understanding of God's will, with the nation being led away from covenant faithfulness by idolatrous and fraudulent teaching.
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