Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Ver. 25. Have ye offered unto me sacrifices, &c.] i.e. To me only, and not to other gods also? did ye not begin betime to play the idolaters? and do ye not "fill up the measure of your fathers?" Matthew 23:32. They sojourned in Egypt, and brought thence a golden calf: Jeroboam sojourned there, and brought home two; which were no sooner up than you were down upon your knees, where still you continue at your mawmet worship. Is it not even so, O house of Israel? And was it not even so in the wilderness, where and when I bore with your "evil manners" (ετροποφορησα) "about the time of forty years," Acts 13:18 (for full forty it was not, but thirty-eight only and some few months), and was provoked by you ten times, Numbers 14:22, when I had but newly brought you out of Egypt, Amos 3:1,2. So that your idolatry is hereditary; and therefore the more ingrained and to be abhorred. God alone is to be worshipped, Exodus 20:2,3 1 Kings 18:21; truly that there be no halting, and totally that there be no halving. Be the gods of the heathen good fellows, saith one: the true God is a jealous God, and will not share his glory with another. For indeed he is the one, Deuteronomy 6:4, and only God, Psalms 86:10, besides whom, Psalms 18:32, without whom, 1 Samuel 2:2, and beyond whom, 1 Kings 8:6, there is none other, Deuteronomy 4:39, nor any like him, 2 Samuel 7:22, nor any with him, Isaiah 44:24; he is the only Lord, and besides him there is none other, Joel 2:27 .