And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
Ver. 15. And they rejected his statutes.] With extreme contempt; Non unius tantum sed omnium quae caelestis sapientiae sunt, as one here glosseth.
And went after the heathen that were round about them.] A Lapide here complaineth, but without cause, that in like sort the neighbour kingdoms of Germany, France, Switzerland, Denmark, England, Scotland, &c., were infected with the Lutheran heresy - so he blasphemously calleth the truth according to godliness - from Saxony, by the means of heretical merchants especially.