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x.xxiv.xxxiii-p38.6

x.xxiv.xxxiii-p38.669 words

29. burn … houses upon whose roofs … incense unto Baal—retribution in kind. They burnt incense to Baal, on the houses, so the houses shall be burnt (Jer 19:13). The god of fire was the object of their worship; so fire shall be the instrument of their punishment.

to provoke me—indicating the design, not merely the event. They seemed to court God's "anger," and purposely to "provoke" Him.