Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Equivalent to, "I would rather have you open idolaters than hypocrites, fancying you can worship Me and yet at the same time serve idols" (Amos 5:21-22, Amos 5:25-26; compare I Kings 18:21; II Kings 17:41; Matthew 6:24; Revelation 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 (Psalms 81:12; Revelation 22:11).
hereafter also—God anticipates the same apostasy afterwards, as now.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 20:39:
Jeremiah 44:26
Ezekiel 20:25
Hosea 4:15
Amos 4:4
Amos 5:25-26
Zephaniah 1:5
1 Corinthians 10:22
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