I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD.”’
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 26. I polluted them, and so forth That is, I gave them up to such blindness, in punishment of their offences, as to pollute themselves with the blood of all their first-born, whom they offered up to their idols in compliance with their wicked devices. Challoner. Menochius. Leviticus 18:21 and 4 Kin. 3 ultr. and 21:6. Calmet.—Offered. Prot. “caused to pass through the fire all,” and so forth Calmet. 16:21.—For their. Prot. “that I might make them desolate to the end, that,” and so forth