Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
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Gill's Exposition
Then I said unto them,.... By his prophets that he sent unto them:
what is the high place where, unto you go? what is the name of it? what is the use of it? to what end do you go there? is there not…
The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel. Eze 20:27 Yet in this - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for their…
Adam Clarke
What is the high place - מה הבמה mah habbamah, "what is the high place?" What is it good for? Its being a high place shows it to be a place of idolatry. I called it במה bamah, to mark it with infamy;…
Here the prophet goes on with the story of their rebellions, for their further humiliation, and shows,
I. That they had persisted in them after they were settled in the land of Canaan. Though God had…
Cambridge Bible
The word bamah, "high-place," has no certain etymology, though often used and at an early period, e.g. in David's elegy on Saul (2Sa 1:19), and in Moabite (Mesha's inscrip.). The prophet here…