Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of
Canaan
Or, "with the land of Canaan" F12; with the inhabitants of it, doing the same evils, committing the same idolatries, as the old inhabitants of Canaan did; and so the Targum,
``and thou hast multiplied thine idols, that thou mightest be joined to the people of Canaan:''or, "to the land of Canaan" F13; like to the land of Canaan; according to the abominations of the Canaanites, doing as they did. Jarchi takes the word Canaan to signify a "merchant", as it does in ( Hosea 12:7 ) ; and the land of Canaan to be the same with the land of Chaldea, called a land of traffic, and Babylon the city of merchants, ( Ezekiel 17:4 ) ; since it follows, unto Chaldea:
``to walk in the laws of the Chaldeans;''their religious ones, their rites and ceremonies respecting idolatrous worship: and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith;