Ezekiel 20:25-29
Ezekiel 20:25
I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they could not live;
Ezekiel 20:26
and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they made all their firstborn pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.” ’
Ezekiel 20:27
“Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Again, in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by being disloyal to Me.
Ezekiel 20:28
When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every tree thick with branches, and there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:29
Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’