Ezekiel 20:31

“For when ye offer your gifts, &c.] And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, the firstfruits of your gifts; it may design their firstborn; (see <262026>Ezekiel 20:26) as the following clause seems to explain it: when ye make your sons to pass through the fire; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them; ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day; by worshipping idols, or dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as often observed; they defiled themselves with those filthy things, which they continued to do to that very day, and so became more and more polluted; and were as their fathers had been, and therefore must expect…”

“through the fire--As "the fire" is omitted in Eze 20:26, FAIRBAIRN represents the generation here referred to (namely, that of Ezekiel's day) as attaining the climax of guilt (see on Eze 20:26), in making their children pass through the fire, which that former generation did not. The reason, however, for the omission of "the fire" in Eze 20:26 is, perhaps, that there it is implied the children only "passed through the fire" for purification, whereas here they are actually burnt to death before the idol; and therefore "the fire" is specified in the latter, not in the former case (compare Kg2 3:27).”

“The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 20:27 Yet in this - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for their glory. Ezekiel 20:29 Bamah - The Hebrew word for “high place.” Another instance of the perversion of God’s laws. When the Israelites first entered Canaan they were to set up the “tabernacle” on a “high place,” and upon this and upon no other they were to worship Yahweh (1 Samuel 9:12 ff; 1 Kings 3:4). But the Israelites followed the custom of the country, and set up idol-worship on every high hill, and the word “high place” (“Bannah,” plural “Bamoth”) became a by-word (compare “Bamoth-Baal,”…”

“Shall I be enquired of - Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached? Ezekiel 20:32”

“ye offer: Eze 20:26; Deu 18:10-12; Psa 106:37-39; Jer 7:31, Jer 19:5 and shall: Eze 20:3, Eze 14:3, Eze 14:4; Sa1 28:5, Sa1 28:6; Kg2 3:13, Kg2 3:14; Job 27:8, Job 27:10; Psa 66:18; Pro 1:27, Pro 1:28, Pro 28:9; Isa 1:15; Jer 14:12; Zac 7:13; Mat 25:11, Mat 25:12; Jam 4:1-3 Ezekiel 20:32”