Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Ezekiel 20:39

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Equivalent to, "I would rather have you open idolaters than hypocrites, fancying you can worship Me and yet at the same time serve idols" (Amo 5:21-22, Amo 5:25-26; compare Kg1 18:21; Kg2 17:41; Mat 6:24; Rev 3:15-16). Go ye, serve--This is not a command to serve idols, but a judicial declaration of God's giving up of the half-idol, half-Jehovah worshippers to utter idolatry, if they will not serve Jehovah alone (Psa 81:12; Rev 22:11). hereafter also--God anticipates the same apostasy afterwards, as now.

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