Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?
Ver. 12. Have the gods of the nations, &c.] See on 2 Kings 19:10 .
Which my fathers have destroyed.] God was not in all this man's thoughts. Hic Deus nihil fecit; but he should have known that he and his fathers or predecessors, those scourges of mankind, were but as rods in God's hand, which, when worn to the stump, he cast into the fire.