In the wilderness — Where they most needed my care and favour; where the preserving their life from destruction by the noxious creatures, and from famine by the barrenness of the wilderness, was a continued miracle.
Verse Ezekiel 20:13. _BUT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL REBELLED_] They acted in the _wilderness_ just as they had done in _Egypt_; and he spared them there for the same reason. See Ezekiel 20:9....
The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Ezekiel 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai,...
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...
EZEKIEL 20. THE WICKED PAST AND THE BLESSED FUTURE. Ezekiel 20:1. A Sketch of Israel's Early Idolatries. It is now 590 B.C. Almost a year has elapsed since the last incident that was dated (Ezekiel 8:...
THAN. SAID,. WOULD, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 14:22; Numbers 14:23; Numbers 14:29. Eze 26:65). App-92....
Provocation of the people in the wilderness. They rejected the statutes of Jehovah and "polluted," better: PROFANED, his sabbaths, i.e. failed to dedicate and keep them to Jehovah. The profanation is...
Review of the history of the fathers The principle that has ruled this history is that all through it Jehovah has acted for his name's sake. It is this principle that has given Israel a history, othe...
The people delivered from Egypt and brought into the wilderness. There also Jehovah wrought for his name's sake....
C. Israel in the Wilderness 20:10-26 TRANSLATION (10) And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them unto the wilderness. (11) And I gave to them My statutes, and My ordinances I mad...
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they grea...
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 *...
REBELLED AGAINST ME. — See Exodus 32:1; Numbers 14:1; Numbers 14:16; Numbers 25:1; and for the desecration of the Sabbath in particular,...
וַ יַּמְרוּ ־בִ֨י בֵֽית ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל בַּ †...
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...
_Sabbaths. We only read of one man gathering sticks, and the people manna once on those days, Exodus xv., and xvi. But Moses does not mention all. (Calmet) --- Sabbath often denotes the whole law, whi...
Here we have the history carried on to the wilderness dispensation. If, as some say, the direct road to Canaan might have been accomplished in a few days, the Lord's keeping them there forty years pla...
Here God pronounces that the sons were like their fathers; and that the people, after their deliverance from Egypt, were so obstinate in their wickedness as not to profit in any way. He had complained...
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...
BUT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL REBELLED AGAINST ME IN THE WILDERNESS,.... Where they were wholly at the mercy of God, entirely dependent upon him; and miracles were wrought every day for the sustaining and p...
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they gre...
_But the house of Israel_ Not a few, but the generality of the people; _rebelled against me_ Were undutiful, disobedient, contumacious, and even openly and repeatedly rebellious; _in the wilderness _...
IN THE WILDERNESS...
But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness, repeating the former performance; THEY WALKED NOT IN MY STATUTES, AND THEY DESPISED MY JUDGMENTS, the general ordinances as well as the s...
10-26. The history of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the new Testament as well as in the Old, for warning. God did great things for them. He gave them the law, and revived the ancient kee...
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; not a few, this I might have borne in silence, but most of them; they were, as we are, a rebellious house. REBELLED AGAINST ME; provoked me bitterly to indignation by their contum...
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“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my judgments, which if a man does he shall live in them. And my sabbaths they greatl...
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 20:5 Israel’s story is told in five broad movements. The author describes the exodus generation first while they were in Egypt (vv. Ezekiel 20:5), then in the exodus itself (vv
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:9 BUT I ACTED FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME (v. Ezekiel 20:9; see vv....
(Ezekiel 20:10) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The sin of the first generation of Israelites in the wilderness: yet the Lord did not make an end of them. Ezekiel 20:11. “AND I GAVE THEM MY STATUTES, AND SHOWED 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...
1 Samuel 8:8; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Samuel 12:9; Amos 2:4; De