Stubbornly followed their own hearts: See the comment at 3.17.

Have gone after the Baals: See 2.8, 23. Note that here Good News Translation renders the plural form as “idols of Baal.” Another possibility is “the gods [called] Baal.”

Fathers is more accurately “ancestors” (Good News Translation, Die Bibel im heutigen Deutsch).

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Jeremiah. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2003. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .