Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 20:31
Shall I be enquired of — Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?
Shall I be enquired of — Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?
Verse Ezekiel 20:31. _YE POLLUTE YOURSELVES_] This shows the sense in which God says, Ezekiel 20:26, "I polluted them in their own gifts." They _chose_ to pollute themselves, and I _permitted_ them t...
The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 20:27 YET IN THIS - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for t...
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:...
YOUR SONS. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "your sons and your daughters"....
_For when … ye pollute_ Interrogatively: _and when … do ye pollute yourselves_unto this day?...
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...
The Lord will not give himself to be enquired of by such men. What they desire to know about others or themselves they shall be left in ignorance of; but _he_has something to tell them regarding himse...
SON OF MAN, SPEAK UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL— This prophesy hitherto contains a declaration of the various punishments inflicted on the rebellious Israelites, from the time of Moses's mission to the pre...
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 when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As...
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 *...
I WILL NOT BE ENQUIRED OF BY YOU. — This takes up the refrain of Ezekiel 20:3, and with the following verse fitly closes this portion of the prophecy which was introduced by the coming of the elders t...
וּ בִ שְׂאֵ֣ת מַתְּנֹֽתֵיכֶ֡ם בְּֽ הַעֲבִיר֩...
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...
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I...
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...
He follows up the same sentiment, that it was a monstrous sin that they so perniciously remained fixed in the perverse imitation of their fathers: for they had been drawn off from their lusts by God’s...
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 WHEN YE OFFER YOUR GIFTS,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, THE FIRSTFRUITS OF YOUR GIFTS; it may design their firstborn; see Ezekiel 20:26 as the follow...
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As]...
_Say unto the house of Israel_ To the elders now sitting before thee, and through them to the rest of their brethren; _Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers_ After all that God hath said to...
For when ye offer your gifts, as described above, WHEN YE MAKE YOUR SONS TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, YE POLLUTE YOURSELVES WITH ALL YOUR IDOLS, EVEN UNTO THIS DAY; AND SHALL I BE ENQUIRED OF BY YOU, O H...
Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence...
27-32 The Jews persisted in rebellion after they settled in the land of Canaan. And these elders seem to have thought of uniting with the heathen. We make nothing by our profession if it be but a prof...
YOUR GIFTS: see EZEKIEL 20:26. ALL YOUR IDOLS; it seems they took a compendious way to increase sin and wrath; they worshipped many idols at once; and this they did still to Ezekiel's time, to that ve...
Ezekiel 20:31 offer H5375 (H8800) gifts H4979 sons H1121 through H5674 (H8687) fire H784 defile H2930 ...
WHY GOD WILL STILL NOT DEAL WITH THEM AND WHAT HE INTENDED TO DO ABOUT IT. “For these reasons say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Do you pollute yourselves in the same way as your...
“As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be enquired of by you, and that which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘we will be as the nations, as the families of the countrie...
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 20:27 As Ezekiel turns from history to application, life in the land itself is in view for the first time. On worship on the high places (vv. Ezekiel 20:28), see note on
(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...
1 Samuel 28:5; 1 Samuel 28:6; 2 Kings 3:13; 2 Kings 3:14; Deu