Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 20:7

7 Then said I unto them, cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile l not your selves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your GOD.

Heb. And, which connects the words, and though we read it Then, this doth not point out the time, when God spake thus, though 'tis certain, when he had brought them out of Egypt he gave them his Ordinances and Laws of Worship; Nay, 'tis sufficiently included, in that they were to go out, that they might [illegible: 1 letter]erve the Lord.

Let every one of you, man by man, and family by family, cast away with abhorrence and indignation; the word is used Chap. 18.31.

Which your eyes should have abhor'd, but you rather lifted up your eyes to them, and looked for help from them, and it includes their own voluntary act in this Idolatry.

Which were in veneration among the Egyptians, and with whose worship too many of them had been ensnared and polluted while they were in Egypt.

The only true God, and therefore you should worship none other.

See ver. 6. let. z. You are my Covenant People, and therefore ought to have no other God, as Exod. 20.3. Thus God prepared them, by his Mercies, and by his Law, for himself.

This explains the former passage.