In the Exile, xxxix.-xliv.
[713] See Cheyne, Jeremiah, p. 56, id. 6.
[714] Canon Cheyne shows that even Mohammed could not persuade the Qurashites wholly to give up their black stone at the Kaaba, and their dolmens and sacred trees (id. 103). He left the auçab, or sacrificial stones (matstseboth), though he warns his followers against them (Quran, v. 92).
[715] Jer. xvii. 9-11.
[716] Ewald, The Prophets, iii. 63, 64.
[717] Jer. xvii. 1-4.
[718] The Qurashites and other heathen Arabs accounted holy a large green tree, and every year had a sacrifice in its honour. "On the way to Hunain we called to God's Messenger (Mohammed) that he should appoint for us such trees. But he was terrified, and said, 'Lord God, Lord God! Ye speak even as the Israelites ... ye are still in ignorance,—thus are heathen enslaved'" (Vakïdi, Book of the Campaigns of God's Messenger, quoted by Cheyne, Jeremiah, p. 103, from Wellhausen).
[719] Psalm lxxxv. 8.
[720] Deut. xxx. 11-14. See Wellhausen, p. 165.
[721] Jer. vi. 20. The passages of Jeremiah which seem of a different spirit may have been added by later hands—e.g., xxxiii. 18, which is not in the LXX.