Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt - the calves set up in Dan and Bethel by Jeroboam, answering to the Egyptian bull-formed idol Apis. Her alliances with Egypt politically are also meant (Isaiah 30:2-3; Isaiah 31:1). The ten tribes probably resumed the Egyptian idolatrous rites, in order to enlist the Egyptians against Judah; because Shishak king of Egypt would be the natural ally of the ten tribes' kingdom of Israel, as having assailed Jerusalem and taken the fenced cities of Judah in the reign of Rehoboam, from whom Israel had revolted (2 Chronicles 12:2-4).