Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:28

28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices , and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet [illegible: 1 letter]avour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

So soon as setled in the Land promised to Abraham, and his seed.

See verse 5. let. r and y, and verse 23. l. n.

Lookest after them, and when seen, liked, and prepared after the manner of the Heathen; though this was forbidden, yet this thou did'st, buildedst thy high places, and thou setst up thy Groves every where.

Not where God appointed, but where they listed.

Either to God, as sometimes some did, or to their own Idols, as the most did, which is here called the presenting the provocation of their Offering.

Which being presented to their Idol, was a provocation unto God.

Burnt sweet Odours to their Idols, which did stink in the Nostrils of God.

Wine was a part of the Offering, that Sacrificers offered, and so did these Idolatrous Iews here, they violated the whole Law of Sacrifice, and did all that to Idols, they should have done only to God.

Marginal references: chap, 16.19.