“I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.”
The observation that Jeremiah sees something worse in the prophets of Jerusalem—committing adultery and walking in lies—indicates that Jerusalem's false prophets are even more culpable than Samaria's. The specific mention of both sexual and spiritual adultery emphasizes the comprehensive moral failure. The statement that they strengthen the hands of evildoers shows that false prophecy enables further wickedness. The verse shows an escalation of the problem from northern to southern kingdom.
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