Ezekiel 20:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers: Wilt thou judge them - If thou wilt enter into any discussion with them, show them the abomination of their fathers. The whole chapter is a consecutive history of the unfaithfulness ingratitude, rebellion, and idolatry of the Jews, from the earliest times to that day; and vindicates the sentence which God had pronounced against them, and which he was about to execute more fully in delivering them and the city into the hands of the Chaldeans.