Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
provocation of their offering—an offering as it were purposely made to provoke God.
sweet savour—What ought to have been sweet became offensive by their corruptions. He specifies the various kinds of offerings, to show that in all alike they violated the law.
The next period, namely, that which followed the settlement in Canaan: the fathers of the generation existing in Ezekiel's time walked in the same steps of apostasy as the generation in the wilderness.
Yet in this—Not content with past rebellions, and not moved with gratitude for God's goodness, "yet in this," still further they rebelled.
blasphemed—"have insulted me" [CALVIN]. Even those who did not sacrifice to heathen gods have offered "their sacrifices" (Ezekiel 20:28) in forbidden places.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 20:28:
Isaiah 65:7
Ezekiel 20:27-29
Ezekiel 20:29
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