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148
A Commentary
Chapter Ibid. That I might make them defolate. ~\ Their ,
XX. Sin brought its own Punifhment along with it,
^/"Y^O deftroying the Hopes of Families, and bringing
them to utter Defolation.
Ibid. To the end that they might know that I
am the Lord.] See the Note upon Chap. vi. 7.
Ver.27,28 Ver. 27, 28. Tet in this your Fathers have blaffhemed
me, 8tc] Or, Moreover in this, & c. The
Prophet proceeds to fpeak of other Inftances of Ido-
latry which their Fathers were guilty of after their
Settlement in the Land of Canaan : and in which
their Pofterity imitated them.
Ibid. Then they faw every high Hill and all the
thick Trees, &-c] Offering Sacrifice upon Moun-
tains or high Places was a piece of Service at firft
performed by the Jews to the true God, before
the Temple was built : See 1 Kjngs iii. 2. and afterwards
was permitted for that Purpofe by godly
Kings who were zealous in putting down all forts
of Idolatry : See 1 Kjngs xv. 14. xxii. 43. 2 Chron.
xxxiii. 17. But by degrees thofe Places became
appropriated to idolatrous Worfhip, and upon that
Score are feverely condemned. See Chap. vi. 1 j.
xviii. 6. Ifa. Ivii. 5. 2 Kjngs xxiii. 5.
Ibid. There they frefented the Provocation of
their Offering : there alfo they made their fweet
Savour .] This is to be underftood of their Meat-
offerings, being diftinguifhed from their Sacrifices
already mentioned. The Word in the Hebrew is
Min-chah, which might more properly be render'd
"Bread-offering, as appears by the feveral kinds of
it reckoned up Levit. ii. and anfwers to the Mola
or Fartum of the Romans. The Meat-offering was
particularly ftyled, an Offering of q fweet Savour.
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