Jacob’s temple discourse condemns his people’s propensity to go after precious metals, become rich and prideful, be “lifted up,” wear “stiff necks and high heads,” and think themselves better than others. Notice a frequently mentioned manifestation of that pride from which they suffered: “the costliness of your apparel.”
It seems that living in luxury may be the most severe test that any people will pass through. Knowing how luxury living distracts even covenant people from the things that matter most, cankering and destroying their souls, God soundly condemns it.