shall the house of Israel no more defile by their whoredome] That is, by their spirituall fornications of Idolatry: and this prophecie was fulfilled in them to the very letter: For after their returne out of the captivitie of Babylon even to this day, they have forsaken their Idols, and though they worship not the true God as they should, yet doe they not worship false gods at all: And thus are they crosse and contrary in their impieties, and yet impious still: Before their captivitie they were all for Idols, and nothing for the true God at all, and since that captivitie they are not for Idols at all, and yet not for the true God neither. This their forsaking of Idols, Hosea telleth of, Hosea 3:4. Nor by the carcasses of their kings] So also vers. 9. Let them put the carcasses of their kings farre from me. Not for that they defiled themselves by touching their dead bodies: but for that they were grown into the Idolatry of the Heathen, to deifie their dead kings, and to reserve their corpses for adoration: as Psalms 106:28. They are the sacrifices of the dead.