Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 7:20

20 ¶ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations, and of their † detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

Their riches the Ornament of a Nation, their Silver, Gold, &c. Or, rather the Temple and Ark and all that pertained to it, which was the Beauty and Glory of that Nation, and they accounted it so.

God commanded, it should be stately, beautiful and rich very magnificent, said Solomon, great, 2 Chron. 2.5. and God gave the Riches with which 'twas built, 1 Chr. 29.11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.

Either set up their Idols which God so much abhorred in his Temple, and provoked him with spiritual Adulteries to his Face, as if a Wife should commit Adultery before the Eye of her Husband. Or, made their Idols, those abominable images, those detestable things, of the Silver and Gold which I adorned them with.

I have parted between them sent them from the Temple, and their Gold and Silver from them.

Marginal references: Or, made it unto them an unclean thing.