And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
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Gill's Exposition
My meat also which I gave thee,.... Or "my bread" (i); a general name for all eatables. The Targum renders it,
"my good things.''
The Jews apply it to the manna, which, they say, descended the…
Barnes' Notes
Mine oil and mine incense - The oil was the produce of the land, the incense received in exchange for such produce. Both were the gifts of Yahweh and belonged to Him; yet the oil Exo 25:6; Exo 29:40…
Adam Clarke
Hast set mine oil and mine incense before them - It appears that they had made use of the holy vestments, and the different kinds of offerings which belonged to the Lord, to honor their idols.
In these verses we have an account of the great wickedness of the people of Israel, especially in worshipping idols, notwithstanding the great favours that God had conferred upon them, by which, one…
The wife's infidelities Israel's idolatries and idolatrous alliances with foreign nations
The idolatries of Israel are represented figuratively as a wife's infidelities against her husband, as had…