Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 20:30

"Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Do ye pollute yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot after their abominations?" — Ezekiel 20:30 (ASV)

Are you polluted? — This and the two following verses constitute the fifth and concluding portion of this historical review and relate to the then-existing generation. The questions asked answer themselves, and yet in the following verse are answered for the sake of emphasis. They bring home to Ezekiel’s own contemporaries the sins that had characterized their race through nearly all the ages of their history and show the justice of those long-threatened judgments that were now bursting upon them.