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and you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.
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Idolatry with God's Gifts
Commentators stress that Israel's sin was not just idolatry, but profound ingratitude. They took the very blessings God had provided—beautiful garments, oil from the land, and incense—and used them to honor false gods. As John Calvin explains, it's like an unfaithful wife lavishing her husband's gifts on her lovers, perverting God's generosity into a tool for rebellion.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My oil and my incense - The oil was the produce of the land, the incense received in exchange for such produce. Both were the gifts of Yahwe…
16th Century
Protestant
Here God complains that the Jews turned their abundance of all things to perverse worship. For, as a husband who indulges his wife freely supplies …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And took your broidered garments, and covered them The images of men, the idols they worshipped; see ([Reference Jer…
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