39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, [a]Go you, and serve everyone his idol, seeing that ye will not obey me, and pollute mine holy Name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

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  1. Ezekiel 20:39 This is spoken to the hypocrites.

39 “‘As for you, people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Go and serve your idols,(A) every one of you! But afterward you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name(B) with your gifts and idols.(C)

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And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and swear by [a]Milcam.

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  1. Zephaniah 1:5 He alludeth to their idol Molech which was forbidden, Lev. 20:2, yet they called him, their king, and made him as a god: therefore he here noteth them that will both say they worship God, and yet will swear by idols and serve them: which halting is here condemned, as Ezek. 20:39; 1 Kings 18:21; 2 Kings 17:33.

those who bow down on the roofs
    to worship the starry host,(A)
those who bow down and swear by the Lord
    and who also swear by Molek,[a](B)

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  1. Zephaniah 1:5 Hebrew Malkam