Ezekiel 23:3

3. They committed whoredoms in Egypt It is plain from this that Ezekiel knew that Israel had broken faith with the one God in Goshen. Baethgen has convincingly proved that Kuenen’s idea of an original Hebrew polytheism has not the slightest foundation. He shows that when the prophets were battling for monotheism they were not striving for a new thing, but for the ancient imperishable treasure which the nation did not prize and revere enough. Moses and the prophets, as little as Jesus, wished to proclaim a new God. They only revealed another phase of the character and will of the “Ancient of Days.” “As far back as Israelitish history can be followed into the past the legitimate worship of Israel was the worship of the one God, and the worship of other gods was regarded as an apostasy.” (See Baethgen, Der Gott Israels und die Gotter der Heiden, 1888.)