Eze 20:7-10 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 7. Cast ye away-the abominations ] Put away all your idols; those incentives to idolatry that ye have looked on with delight.

‏ Ezekiel 20:7-10

Verse 7. Cast ye away-the abominations] Put away all your idols; those incentives to idolatry that ye have looked on with delight.

Verse 8. They did not-cast away] They continued attached to the idolatry of Egypt; so that, had I consulted my justice only, I should have consumed them even in Egypt itself. This is a circumstance that Moses has not mentioned, namely, their provoking God by their idolatry, after he had sent Moses and Aaron to them in Egypt.

Verse 9. But I wrought for my name's sake] I bare with them and did not punish them, lest the heathen, who had known my promises made to them, might suppose that I had either broken them through some caprice, or was not able to fulfil them.

Verse 10. I caused them to go forth] Though greatly oppressed and degraded, they were not willing to leave their house of bondage. I was obliged to force them away.