Jeremiah 9:14 meaning and explanation
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 9:14, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD answers the question of verse 12 about why the land lies scorched and empty. Speaking through Jeremiah to Judah before the exile, God names the root cause: the people followed the stubbornness of their hearts, a phrase for willful self direction, and went after the Baals, the Canaanite gods of fertility and storm.
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