Ezekiel 20:29
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Then I said to them, What is the high place whereunto you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah to this day.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Then I said to them, What is the high place whereunto you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah to this day.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.
Webster's Revision
Then I said to them, What is the high place to which ye go? and its name is called Bamah to this day.
World English Bible
Then I said to them, What does the high place where you go mean? So its name is called Bamah to this day.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
Clarke's Ezekiel 20:29 Bible Commentary
What is the high place - מה הבמה mah habbamah, "what is the high place?" What is it good for? Its being a high place shows it to be a place of idolatry. I called it במה bamah, to mark it with infamy; but ye continue to frequent it, even while it is called במה bamah, to the present day!
Barnes's Ezekiel 20:29 Bible Commentary
Bamah - The Hebrew word for "high place." Another instance of the perversion of God's laws. When the Israelites first entered Canaan they were to set up the "tabernacle" on a "high place," and upon this and upon no other they were to worship Yahweh (1 Samuel 9:12 ff; 1 Kings 3:4). But the Israelites followed the custom of the country, and set up idol-worship on every high hill, and the word "high place" ("Bannah," plural "Bamoth") became a by-word (compare "Bamoth-Baal," Joshua 13:17). "Bamoth" occurs on the Moabitic stone, which records the erection of high places in honor of Chemosh. The name "Bamah" was thus a brand of the divine displeasure, and a memorial of the people's guilt.
Wesley's Ezekiel 20:29 Bible Commentary
20:29 What - What mean you that you go to the high place? What do you find so inviting there, that you will leave God's altar, where he requires your attendance, to frequent such places as he has forbidden you to worship in? Bamah - That is, the high place.
