From him; from the God, whom they or their progenitors had owned; and his laws, which God hath written in the minds of all men, Romans 2:14,15; and, it may be, from the practice of the true religion, which sometimes they professed; Would not consider, or understand. They did not desire nor endeavour to know them, at least practically, or to any good purpose. His ways; either,
1. God's providential ways. They did not lay to heart any of God's judgments inflicted upon such oppressors as themselves, which should have given them warning, but boldly persisted in the same wicked courses. Or,
2. His precepts; oft called his ways, because he hath appointed them for us to walk in. For these ways they were in a special manner obliged to consider and practise; and the next verse giveth us an instance of their backsliding from these ways.