Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 17:7

7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils , after whom they have gone a whoring : This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

So they did not directly or intentionally, but by construction and consequence, because the Devil is the author of idolatry, and is eminently served, pleased and honoured by it. And as the Egyptians were notorious for their Idolatry, as appears by the testimony of Scripture, and of all antient writers, so the Israelites were infected with their leaven, Ios. 24. 14. Ezek. 20. 7. and 23. 2, 3. And the name of Devils is commonly given in Scripture to Idols, yea even to those which seemed most innocent▪ as to Ieroboams Calves, 2 Chron. 11. 15. by which he and the people designed and professed to worship the true God, as is manifest from the nature of the thing, and from many places of Scripture, and the worshippers of Idols are esteemed and called worshippers of Devils. See Deut. 32. 17. Psal. 106. 37. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 9. 20. The Hebrew word rendred Devils signifies goats, either because goats were eminently worshipped by the Egyptians, as Herodotus, Strabo, and others note, and diverse of the Idols of the Heathens were of that or a like form, or because the Devil did oft appear to the Heathens in that shape, as their own authours note.

For Idolatry, especially in Gods people, is commonly called [illegible: 1 word] ▪ as Ezek. 16. 16, 26. & 23. 8, 19, 21, &c. and that justly, because it is a violation of that covenant by which they were peculiarly betrothed or married to God. See Hos. 2. 19, 18, 19.