Treasury of Scripture Knowledge The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. Baruch 6:40Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. Baruch 6:41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. Baruch 6:43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Baruch 6:44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? Context Baruch 6…41As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. 42The women also, with cords about them, sit in the ways, burning olive-stones. 43And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.… Cross References Baruch 6:40 Even the Chaldeans themselves dishonor them: who when they hear of one dumb that cannot speak, they present him to Bel, entreating him, that he may speak. Baruch 6:41 As though they could be sensible that have no motion themselves: and they, when they shall perceive this, will leave them: for their gods themselves have no sense. Baruch 6:43 And when any one of them, drawn away by some passenger, lieth with him, she upbraideth her neighbor, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken. Baruch 6:44 But all things that are done about them, are false: how is it then to be thought, or to be said, that they are gods? |
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