I had espied — God speaks after the manner of men. Milk and honey — Literally milk and honey in abundance were in the land of Canaan. Proverbially it speaks the plenty and abundance of all the blessings of life.
Verse Ezekiel 20:6. _TO BRING THEM FORTH OF THE LAND OF EGYPT_] When they had been long in a very disgraceful and oppressive bondage. _A LAND THAT I HAD ESPIED FOR THEM_] God represents himself as ha...
The children of Israel in Egypt were warned to abstain from the idolatry of the pagan. This purpose they lost sight of, yet God spared them and brought them into another state of probation. Ezekiel 2...
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:...
THE. that. BRING THEM FORTH, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:8;...
_the day_that _I lifted_ ON THAT DAY I LIFTED … 7 AND I SAID unto them. On "milk and honey" cf. Exodus 3:8; and on the idea of Canaan as the "glory" of all lands, a frequent judgment in late writings,...
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...
FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY— Bochart, Hier. p. ii. lib. iv. c. xii. 520 observes, that this phrase occurs about twenty times in the Scriptures; and that it is an image frequently used in the classics....
B. Israel in Egypt 20:5-9 TRANSLATION (5) Say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up My hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them...
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I l...
20:6 ornament (b-37) As ver. 15; ch. 7.20, 'beautiful.' see Daniel 8:9 ....
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 *...
THE GLORY OF ALL LANDS. — So Palestine is constantly spoken of, both in the promise and in its fulfilment. (Comp. Daniel 11:16.) However strange this may seem to us now in regard to parts of the land,...
בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֗וּא נָשָׂ֤אתִי יָדִי֙...
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...
_Excelleth. Hebrew, "is beauty or a desire." Septuagint, "honeycomb." (Calmet)_...
The Lord seems to appeal to the Prophet for his judgment to decide the equity of the Lord's cause; and, in order to enable the Prophet so to do, the Lord enters upon their history, from the servitude...
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...
IN THE DAY [THAT] I LIFTED UP MY HAND UNTO THEM, TO BRING THEM FORTH OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... Not only promised and swore to it, but exerted his power in the miracles he wrought, by bringing plagues...
In the day [that] I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which [is] the glory of all lands: Ver...
_To bring them into a land that I had espied for them_ Which I chose out of all others to bestow it upon them. So God is said _to go before them, to search out a place to pitch their tents in, Deutero...
in the day that I lifted up Mine hand unto them to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, seeking it out and choosing it for them as the best of all lands for Hi...
IN THE EARLY DAYS...
After the manner of man God speaks, as if he had been the spy to go from place to place to search out the best, and to appoint it for them; it was his wise and good providence which assigned this land...
Ezekiel 20:6 day H3117 raised H5375 (H8804) hand H3027 out H3318 (H8687) land H776 Egypt H4714 land...
GOD'S DEALINGS WITH THEM IN EGYPT. “And say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them...
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...
_A land. .. which is the glory of all lands._ THE GLORY OF ALL LANDS Palestine, as it appears to the modern traveller, is so totally different from the land as it is described in the Bible, that anti...
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 20:5.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The election of Israel in Egypt, where God made Himself known to them by wonders and signs, and promised to become their God. Israel’s ingratitude, though the Lord b...
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 11:16; Daniel 11:41; Daniel 8:9; Deuteronomy 11:11;...