Mountain. The foregoing verse, to make the sense complete, must be understood so as to condemn and reject that mixture of worship which the Jews then followed. In this verse God promises to the true Israelites, especially to those of the Christian Church, that they should serve him in another manner in his holy mountain, the spiritual Sion, and shall be accepted of by him. (Challoner)
Verse Ezekiel 20:40. _FOR IN MINE HOLY MOUNTAIN_] The days shall come in which all _true_ ISRAELITES shall receive HIM whom I have _sent_ to be the _true sacrifice_ for the life of the world; and shal...
God’s future dealings with His people: (1) in judgment Ezekiel 20:32; (2) in mercy Ezekiel 20:39....
CHAPTER S 20-24 Further and Final Predictions Concerning the judgment of Jerusalem _ 1. Jehovah rehearses His mercies bestowed upon Israel (Ezekiel 20:1) _ 2. The impending judgment announced (Ezek...
THE RESTORATION OF THE FUTURE. But after all, Yahweh has chosen Israel (Ezekiel 20:5) for a purpose, and that purpose must not be frustrated; and despite the sin and darkness of the present, Ezekiel l...
IN THE MOUNTAIN: i.e. Mcriah and Lion. See App-68. Compare Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 5:4; Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 62:1;...
Jehovah's regard to his own name will fashion the history of the people to come as it has fashioned the past Having reviewed the past and shewn the elders their own picture in the doings of their fat...
Resumes Ezekiel 20:34, and carries these verses a step further to the restoration (Ezekiel 20:41). _your offerings_ Always rendered _oblations_in Ezek., except ch. Ezekiel 48:8. The idea expressed by...
DISCOURSE: 1109 RESTORATION OF THE JEWS, AND THE CONVERSION OF A SOUL, COMPARED Ezekiel 20:40. In mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the h...
AS FOR YOU, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL— As, in the height of God's vengeance on the sins of this rebellious people, the distant prospect always terminated in mercy; so, with a mercy, and a promise of better ti...
II. ISRAEL'S FUTURE RESTORATION 20:30-44 TRANSLATION (30) Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: In the way of your fathers you have defiled yourselves, and you are whoring a...
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there wil...
20:40 first-fruits (a-48) Or 'the choicest,' as 1 Samuel 15:21 ; 1 Samuel 2:29 , 'primest.' things. (b-56) Or 'consecrated things.'...
IN THE LAND, SERVE ME] RV 'serve me in the land,' a promise of restoration....
§ 5. A FINAL SERIES OF PROPHECIES ON THE NECESSITY OF ISRAEL'S PUNISHMENT AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (EZEKIEL 20-24) Date, Aug.-Sept. 590 b.c. to Jan.-Feb. 587 b.c. This group includes a warning...
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF Some four years before the fall of Jerusalem the elders of Tel-abib again came to consult Ezekiel, who declared that God had no answer to give them. The reason was that their...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 20 * God is patient. He gives people every opportunity to *...
IN MINE HOLY MOUNTAIN. — See note on Ezekiel 17:23. The former prophecy was distinctly Messianic; in this, taken by itself, there is nothing which might not refer to the restoration from the exile. Ye...
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JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL Ezekiel 20:1 BY far the hardest trial of Ezekiel's faith must have been the conduct of his fellow-exiles. It was amongst them that he looked for the great spiritual...
In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the seventh year of the reign of Jehoiachin, that is four...
Nothing can be more striking in proof that love and grace and mercy are at the bottom of all the Lord's corrections to His people, than what those verses express. The Lord's holy mountain, namely, the...
God now directs his address to the elect, or the remnant in whom he wished his Church to survive. Thus far he has spoken of the whole body of the people: he says, although he should free them from the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 20 AND 21. Chapter 20 begins a new prophecy, which, with its subdivisions, continues to the end of chapter 23. It will have been remarked that the general div...
FOR IN MINE HOLY MOUNTAIN, IN THE MOUNTAIN OF THE HEIGHT OF ISRAEL, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Alluding to Mount Zion, or Moriah, on which the temple was built, on the highest part of the land of Israel,...
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will...
_For in my holy mountain_, &c. The holy hill of Zion, holy through God's appointing it for the place of his temple. _The mountain of the height of Israel_ See Ezekiel 17:23; Micah 4:1. Though mount Zi...
For in Mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, in the Zion of the New Testament, THERE SHALL ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, all those who belonged to the true, the s...
Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence...
FIRSTFRUITS: Or, chief...
33-44 The wicked Israelites, notwithstanding they follow the sinful ways of other nations, shall not mingle with them in their prosperity, but shall be separated from them for destruction. There is n...
The gifts of idolaters, and all their painted stuff, God rejected in the former verse; now he encourageth the upright, those that feared, and obeyed, and waited on him. _Mine holy mountain_; Zion, hol...
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“For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, there will all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land. There will I accept them, and there will...
CONTENTS: Jehovah vindicated in the chastising of Israel. Israel's future judgment. Parable of the forest of the south field. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes it as an affront when tho...
Ezekiel 20:1. _The elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me._ They still respected the divine καρισματα, or holy anointing of the Spirit; but they sought it for a reverse of the...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:1 This lengthy oracle has two main parts: a review of Israel’s history of offending the Lord (vv. Ezekiel 20:1), and a preview of her future restoration (vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:39 The people must choose between idols and God (v. Ezekiel 20:39). The faithful will turn from their former evil idolatry and will serve God (vv....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:40 The HOLY MOUNTAIN is the place of God’s renewed presence with his people. This is especially prominent in the latter chapters of Isaiah (e.g., Isai
(_From MSS. Sermons by the Rev. S. Thodey_.) (Ezekiel 20:39.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet now declares the promise for the future. Israel is to be gathered again, and to be converted to the Lord....
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 20:1 A new date is given, and includes what follows to Ezekiel 23:49. The last note of time was in Ezekiel 8:1, and eleven months and five days had passed, during which the prop
Now it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me (Ezekiel 20:1). Now this e...
1 Peter 2:5; Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 37:22; Hebrews 12:20; Heb
Mine holy mountain — Sion, God's holy hill, Psalms 2:6. Holy by designation, and God's own appointing it for his temple and presence. Of the height — Sion, tho' lower than many other hills, yet was ab...