As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and with a stretched-out arm, by applying His almighty power, and with fury poured out will I rule over you, asserting His sovereign right over them in spite of their resistance;
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...
WITH. MIGHTY HAND, he. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:34, &c.) WILL. RULE. will. become king....
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...
This resolution of the people to sink themselves among the heathen shall not stand; Jehovah _will_assert his sovereignty over them, amidst terrible manifestations of his power and anger. _rule over yo...
AND THAT WHICH COMETH INTO YOUR MIND— By all this it appears, that this rebellious people were not anxious to avoid their approaching captivity, denounced and threatened by all the prophets. What they...
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...
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD GOD, SURELY WITH A MIGHTY HAND ......
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...
§ 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...
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 *...
WITH A MIGHTY HAND, AND WITH A STRETCHED OUT ARM. — As the delineations of this whole passage are founded upon the exodus from Egypt (comp. Hosea 2:14), so this particular expression is the standing f...
חַי ־אָ֕נִי נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה אִם ־לֹ֠א
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...
_Out. I will not allow you to follow idols with impunity. (Calmet)_...
The Lord is still expostulating with His people for their transgressions; and the Lord shows the folly, as well as the sin, of Israel in going to those high places for sacrifice, for what could any or...
_THE ISOLATION OF PRIVILEGE_ ‘That which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. As I live, saith...
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...
AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... The form of an oath; the Lord swears by his own life, used more than once before; it supposes something of moment, and the certain performance of it: SURELY WITH A...
Ezekiel 20:33 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: Ver. 33. _Surely with a mighty hand._] You are...
_Surely with a mighty hand_, &c. I will no longer try to reclaim you by the gentle methods of patience and forbearance, but will govern you, as masters do bad servants, by stripes and corrections; and...
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...
AS I LIVE: see EZEKIEL 20:3. A MIGHTY HAND; so mighty, that you shall never wrest yourselves out of it: you think to revolt, and get out of my hand, but you shall hereby discover your own folly, malic...
Ezekiel 20:33 live H2416 says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 GOD H3069 mighty H2389 hand H3027 outstretched H5186 ...
GOD WILL ACT AGAIN IN POWER, AS AT THE EXODUS, TO DELIVER THEM, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT. HE WILL CALL THEM TO ACCOUNT. “As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand and with a stret...
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 20:33 As in the exodus, God will bring the people to the desert (v. Ezekiel 20:34). There he will judge between the faithful and the wicked (vv....
(Ezekiel 20:30.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet addresses the men of his day, showing that they are equally guilty with their fathers. They are to receive just retribution, and to be purified among th...
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...
Daniel 9:11; Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 8:18; Jeremiah 21:5; Jeremiah 42:18