And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
Ver. 22. And it shall be answered.] Or, And they shall answer. 1Ki 9:9 Non quidem omnes, sed pii et rerum periti. The godly who shall say so.