Ezekiel 20:28 - Exposition

It was a special aggravation of the sin that it was committed in the very land into which they had been brought by the oath (the "hand lifted up") of Jehovah, that it might be a holy land, a witness of the Divine righteousness to the nations round about. The forms of worship include that of the high places, and the thick trees ( Isaiah 57:5 ; Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 3:6 ) width witnessed the cultus of the Asherah or of Ashtaroth.