"But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
But turned back,.... From God and his worship, apostatized from the true religion, and turned to idols: and dealt unfaithfully, like their fathers; in the wilderness; see Psa 78:8 ,
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow; that promises well to carry the arrow right, but drops it at the feet of the archer; or carries it another way, so that it misses the mark, The Targum is, "as a bow casting arrows;'' to the ground, and not to the mark; see Hos 7:16 , or being too much stretched is suddenly broken, and kills the archer; or returns to its own nature; so Arama.
Source: Gill's Exposition (Public Domain)
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
But turned back,.... From God and his worship, apostatized from the true religion, and turned to idols: and dealt unfaithfully, like their fathers; in the wilderness; see Psa 78:8 ,
they were turned aside like a deceitful bow; that promises well to carry the arrow right, but drops it at the feet of the archer; or carries it another way, so that it misses the mark, The Targum is, "as a bow casting arrows;'' to the ground, and not to the mark; see Hos 7:16 , or being too much stretched is suddenly broken, and kills the archer; or returns to its own nature; so Arama.