Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:40

40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel , all of them in the land, serve me : there will I t accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

The gifts of Idolaters, and all their painted stuff God rejected in the former verse; now he encourageth the upright, those that feared, and obeyed, and waited on him.

Sion, Holy Hill, Psal. 2.6. Holy by designation, and God's own appointing it for his Temple and Presence.

The Hypocrites, you have your high places, I abhor them; my Church hath its high place, but 'tis the Mount Sion, I have loved and chosen, called the height; 'twas the Glory of Israel, and, though lower than many other Hills; yet 'twas above them all for God's peculiar presence there.

Redeemed me, whom I have brought out of Babylon according to promise, the returned Captivity.

'Tis doubled to ensure them.

Their own Land, and their Fathers Land.

Not Idols, but the God of their Fathers.

When I have brought you into, and blest you in the Land, then I will require your offerings as formerly; your first Fruits, your Tithes, in a word, all your Holy Gifts: You shall see my Temple built, Ierusalem filled with Inhabitants, the Land of Israel planted with seed of Man, and Beast, my Worship restored, and you shall go up with joy, carrying your holy things, and I will there accept them.

Delight in them, and in their Sacrifices.

Marginal references: Isa 2.[illegible: 2 letters] chap. 17.[illegible: 1 letter] Mic. 4.1.; Or, chief.