Vulgar words in Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 (Page 1)
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I gave them their fill and they whored, And trooped to the house of the harlot.
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With the burial of an ass shall they bury him, 19 Dragged and flung out- Out from the gates of Jerusalem.
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The northern executioners of the Divine Judgment upon Judah were not the Scythians as he at first expected; and-a smaller matter-Jehoiakim was not _buried with the burial of an ass, dragged and flung out from the gates of Jerusalem_, but _slept with his fathers_.
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(687) Nothing satisfied his contempt for Jehoiakim, but that dying the king should be buried with the burial of an ass.