set it before them - as a minchah or “meat offering” (Lev 2:1).
a sweet savour - literally, “a savor of rest,” that is, whereby they might be propitiated, and be at peace (“rest”) with you; how ridiculous to seek to propitiate gods of wood!
thus it was - The fact cannot be denied, for I saw it, and say it was so, saith Jehovah.