Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:27

27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blaspheemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

Since all this evil, and wicked carriage in Egypt, in the Wilderness, is too true, and cause of a Divine Wrath against them, go on; tell what the deportment of those was whom I brought into the Land.

To those Elders, that were now come to him, that they might tell others at Ierusalem.

Or farther yet, beside all the rest, this is added by them.

Profanely, and frowardly lessen'd my Mercy, my Law, my Worship, cast a reproach upon it all, as less desirable, then that of their own: Their's more august, and stately, more taking, and pleasing; or thus reproacht; my Wisdom as if it needed their additions to compleat Religion, and Divine Worship, or reproacht my bounty as if, not I, but their Idols, give them what they enjoyed, as Hos. 2.5, 7, 8. the word speaks a reproach, and blasphemy, that comes from an heart full of Enmity, as where 'tis used, Numb. 15.30. 2 Kings 19.22. Psal. 44.16. Isa. 37.23. and 43.28. they spitefully reproached.

Grievously sin'd, as the phrase is rendred, chap. 14.13. what this was in particular the next verse will account to us.

Marginal references: Heb. trespassed a trespass.