Ezekiel 20:31

For when ye offer your gifts ,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it,

the firstfruits of your gifts ; it may design their firstborn; see Ezekiel 20:26 as the following clause seems to explain it:

when ye make your sons to pass through the fire ; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them;

ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day ; by worshipping idols, or dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as often observed; they defiled themselves with those filthy things, which they continued to do to that very day, and so became more and more polluted; and were as their fathers had been, and therefore must expect to be used in like manner:

and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel ? can you think that I will suffer you to come and inquire of me or to make your requests to me? or can you hope to have an answer from me; at least a favourable one, such as you could wish for?

as I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you ; so confirming again with an oath what he had before declared, Ezekiel 20:3 , wherefore they might assure themselves that they would not be acceptable to him, neither their persons nor petitions, or be regarded by him.