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My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.
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Blessings Used for Betrayal
Commentators explain that God's provision of 'fine flour, and oil, and honey' was an act of profound generosity. Israel's sin was not just idolatry, but a deep betrayal. They took the very gifts from their divine Provider and offered them to lifeless idols, turning God's blessings into instruments of spiritual adultery.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
An allusion is made here to some rite like the Roman “Lectisternia,” in which public tables were set forth for feasts in honor of idols.
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
My meat also which I gave you Or "my bread" F9 ; a general name for all eatables. The Targum renders it, …
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