“And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;”
Those who bow down on the roofs to the host of heaven and those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom—the indictment catalogues religious syncretism: rooftop worship of heavenly bodies and simultaneous allegiance to both the LORD and foreign gods. The theological problem intensifies the judgment: these are not openly pagan but religiously hybrid, attempting to serve multiple deities. Such divided loyalty merits divine wrath.
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