“Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”
The reason given grounds Jerusalem's judgment in the city's role in perpetuating national sin. The leadership centered in Jerusalem fostered rather than corrected Israel's idolatry.
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