When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
He follows up the same sentiment, that it was a monstrous sin that they so perniciously remained fixed in the perverse imitation of their fathers: for they had been drawn off from their lusts by God’s numerous chastisements, and then they pretended to be afterwards disposed to obedience: God therefore here says, why, then, by offering your gifts, do you make your sons pass through...
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 so many times testified his displeasure against their wicked courses, "yet in this (that is, in the very same thing) your fathers have blasphemed me, continued to affront me...
Commenting on Ezekiel 20:27-32
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 clause seems to explain it: when ye make your sons to pass through the fire; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them; ye pollute yourselves with...