“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 25. Did you offer, and so forth Except the sacrifices that were offered at the first, in the dedication of the tabernacle, the Israelites offered no sacrifices in the desert. Challoner.—They ceased after the beginning of the second year. Saint Augustine q. 47 in Ex. Leviticus 7. and so forth Worthington.—God did not require sacrifices when the people came out of Egypt. Jeremiah 7:22. Deuteronomy 12:8. They were not performed so regularly in the desert, ( Calmet.) and the people still bore a secret affection for idols, (verse 26) which rendered all their victims useless. Bible.