* I gave.
   The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites
   had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted
   his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up
   wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their
   disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate
   mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the
   idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the
   heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which
   he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know
   God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies.
   In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong
   delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who
   "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in
   unrighteousness."

  26,39  14:9-11  De 4:27,28  28:36  Ps 81:12  Isa 66:4  Ro 1:21-28 
  2Th 2:9-11