And shed innocent blood, [even] the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Ver. 38. And shed innocent blood, &c.] This was furor Diabolicus; but what may not the devil do with his drudges, when God's word cannot obtain the smallest things of us?
Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan] Prompted thereunto by that old manslayer. This was practised by Manasseh, Ahaz, and others not a few, Jer 7:19 Ezekiel 16:1,63 Haec atrocitas frequens apud gentes.
And the land was polluted with blood] Impiata est abominabilis reddita est quasi hypocrita. See Ezra 9:11. As a hypocrite is a fair professor, but a foul sinner, so here.