secretly] Heb. they hid: They covertly, and deceitfully, did that which was not right, upon pretence of serving God, yea, and beside their open idolatry, they did many secret abominations, Ezekiel 8:12. from the tower, &c.] Watch towers used to be up and down in the countrey, to descry danger afarre off: great and populous cities were wont to be fenced. This then is a proverbiall speech, whereby the extent of their idolatry is set out, to be every where in countrey and city, in meaner and greater places.