REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. When are the prophecies of Chapter s 20-21 to be dated? 2. What historical events probably triggered the utterances in these two Chapter s? 3. In what sense did Ezekiel become a judge of Israel? 4. What new information about the Egyptian sojourn of Israel is brought out b... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER TEN ISRAEL: PAST AND FUTURE 20:1-21:32 Eleven months intervene between Ezekiel's last series of oracles and the present utterances. He has effectively shattered Judah's insane hope that judgment would never fall on Jerusalem. Every argument put forth in objection to his dogmatic assertion... [ Continue Reading ]
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 in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I am the LORD your God. (6) In that... [ Continue Reading ]
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 made known to them, which if a man do them, he shall live by them. (12) And also My sabbaths I gave to... [ Continue Reading ]
D. Israel in Canaan 20:27-29 TRANSLATION (27) Therefore speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they have dealt treacherously with Me. (28) For when I brought them to the land which I lifted up My han... [ Continue Reading ]
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 after their abominations, (31) and when You offer your gifts, in making your sons to pass through the... [ Continue Reading ]
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version and subsequent English translations. What is said in Ezekiel 20:45-49 has no connection with what has... [ Continue Reading ]