Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:29

29 Then I said unto them, what is the high place whereunto ye go: and the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day .

When they were intent upon this horrid course of sin.

God pleaded by his Messengers, and Prophets, and Law, and some faithful Priests.

What mean you, that ye go to the high place, should you not go to the Altar of God? and bring your Sacrifices to the Temple? Or what God better than Abraham's do you expect there? What profit by attending upon those Sacrifices offered dayly? How often have you, by such like means poured contempt on God, and his Law?

Leaving my Temple, and the Service I prescrib'd, and in other places unrequired, doing their supposed Duties.

High place, the very word tells them their wickedness, that they acted against the express Will of God, and fram'd themselves to Idolaters of the Nation.

And this they did with obstinacy continue in to the dayes of Iosiah. 2 Chron. 24.3. thus far the Narrative of their great wickednesses.

Marginal references: Or, I told them what the high place was, or Bamah.