20:31 For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, {p} I will not be enquired of by you.
(p) He shows that the ingratitude of the people deserves that God should cut them off, and that they should not have the comfort of his word.
20:31 Shall I be enquired of - Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?
20:27-32 The Jews persisted in rebellion after they settled in the land of Canaan. And these elders seem to have thought of uniting with the heathen. We make nothing by our profession if it be but a profession. There is nothing got by sinful compliances; and the carnal projects of hypocrites will stand them in no stead.
