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upon EZEKJEL. 149
See Chap. xvi. 19. but being offered to Idols, it Chapter
became abominable, and was turned into a Provo- XX.
cation. L/^NJ
Ver. 29. WHoat is the high place whereunto j^Ver. 29.
go, &-c] The Word t
Bamah fignifies an Altar as
well as an high place : See the Note on Chap. xvi.
16. So the Senfefeems to be, What Name is this
Altar called by, which you frequent ? meaning, it
is likely, the very Altar belonging to the Temple:
is it not called (
Bamah at this very time, which
"Word properly denotes an high place ? An evident
Token that Idolatry is fo much practifed among
you, that it hath occafioned the changing the very
Names of the Places and Things dedicated to God's
Worfhip. So that inftead of the Word Mizbeach,
the Name which God appropriated to his own
Altar, the place is ufually called IBamah, a Name
taken from an idolatrous Cufrom.
Ver. $o.