Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Ezekiel 16:19
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Ezekiel16:19
19. My meat ... I gave--(Ho 2:8).
set it before them--as a minchah or "meat offering" (Le 2:1).
a sweet savour--literally, "a savor of rest," that is, whereby they might be propitiated, and be at peace ("rest") with you; how ridiculous to seek to propitiate gods of wood!
thus it was--The fact cannot be denied, for I saw it, and say it was so, saith Jehovah.
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