Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah Most High have mercy on him—said:

This is an explanation of verses that have proved so difficult that, in a number of Quranic commentaries, only erroneous explanations of them can be found.

Among them are His words:

“and worshipped false gods.”

The correct interpretation is that this is coordinated with His words:

“those whom Allah has cursed.”

It is a past-tense verb coordinated with the preceding past-tense verbs. In the preceding verbs, however, the subject is Allah, either explicitly named or represented by a pronoun. The subject of this verb denotes the one who worshipped false gods: it is the pronoun contained in ‘abada (“he worshipped”). The particle man (“those who”) is not repeated because these actions concern a single group, namely the Jews.