For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
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Gill's Exposition
For when ye offer your gifts,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it,
the firstfruits of your gifts; it may design their firstborn; see Eze 20:26 as the following…
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
Ye pollute yourselves - This shows the sense in which God says, Eze 20:26, "I polluted them in their own gifts." They chose to pollute themselves, and I permitted them to do so. See on Eze 20:25…
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
For when … ye pollute Interrogatively: and when … do ye pollute yourselvesunto this day?
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