God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that [is] before his tabernacle.
Ver. 29. God forbid that we.] As it is a folly to be hot in a cold matter, so it is a great fault to be cold in a hot. See Acts 17:16,17, &c., "his spirit was stirred," he was in a holy fit, and he bestirred him accordingly.