What is the context?
Judah is not exempt from the repeated judgment formula. Its stated offense is rejecting the Lord’s Law and failing to keep His instruction.
The lies followed by the fathers have continued to lead the people astray. An inherited practice is not vindicated simply by being inherited.
The threatened fire reaches Jerusalem’s fortresses. The movement toward Israel that follows will prevent the hearers from treating the surrounding oracles as safe criticism of outsiders alone.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley interprets the lies as idols and the following of them as a continuing generational pattern. That reading emphasizes unfaithful allegiance without denying the text’s explicit concern for the Lord’s commands.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.