Verse Ezekiel 20:9. _BUT I WROUGHT FOR MY NAME'S SAKE_] I bare with them and did not punish them, lest the heathen, who had known my promises made to them, might suppose that I had either broken them...
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:...
I WROUGHT, &c. Repeated in no Ezekiel 14:22, Eze 14:44. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:12.Numbers 14:13, &c.) App-92. HEATHEN. nations....
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...
_for my name's sake_ This idea, very common in this prophet, also in Isaiah 40-66, does not appear in the earlier prophets, except Isaiah 37:35. Cf. however, Deuteronomy 9:28-29; Jeremiah 14:7;...
BUT I WROUGHT FOR MY NAME'S SAKE— This in other parts of Scripture is assigned as the reason why God did not punish the Israelites as they deserved; namely, because it would turn to the dishonour of t...
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...
But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out...
§ 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...
FOR MY NAME'S SAKE] God's consistent motive was that His character should be known to the world. When He was patient with Israel it was because sudden judgment upon them would have been misunderstood...
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...
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 *...
FOR MY NAME’S SAKE. — This is the express ground of Moses’ pleading for the people in the passage just referred to, and again in Exodus 32:12; Deuteronomy 9:28; and it is repeatedly given, as in Deute...
וָ אַ֨עַשׂ֙ לְמַ֣עַן שְׁמִ֔י לְ בִלְתִּ֥י הֵח
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...
But I wrought for my (f) name's sake, that it should not be profaned before the nations, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them forth from the land of Egy...
We see here the striking proof of Israel's rebellion, and the Lord's forbearance. Though Israel lost all sense of duty, the Lord will not lose showing all manifestations of His love. The name of Jehov...
Here God signifies that he was restrained for one reason only from entirely blotting out so ungrateful and wicked a nation, namely, since he saw his own sacred name would be exposed to the Gentiles as...
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 I WROUGHT FOR MY NAME'S SAKE,.... In a way of grace and mercy; did well by thorn, did what he promised to do; not for any merits of theirs, but for his own honour, and the glory of his name: THAT...
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they [were], in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egy...
_Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes_ The idols to which your eyes are lifted up. One of the chief allurements to the worship of images is, that by way of indulgence to men's imaginati...
IN THE EARLY DAYS...
But I wrought for My name's sake, He refrained from executing His wrath for the sake of His own honor, THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE POLLUTED BEFORE THE HEATHEN, who would have taken occasion to blaspheme if...
I WROUGHT, according to my promise, ny infinite mercy, and the hopes of those few that heard and obeyed. FOR MY NAME'S SAKE; for my glory: had you been used as you deserved, you had died slaves in Egy...
Ezekiel 20:9 acted H6213 (H8799) names H8034 profaned H2490 (H8736) before H5869 Gentiles H1471 among H8432 sight...
“But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them forth out of the land of...
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...
_I wrought for My name’s sake._ THE GLORY OF GOD, HIS PRINCIPLE OF ACTION It is an admitted axiom of all enlightened legislation, that with man as a moral agent human lawmakers have nothing to do; th...
(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...
1 Samuel 12:22; 1 Samuel 4:8; Deuteronomy 32:26; Deuteronomy 32:27;...
For my name's sake — For the glory of my mercy and faithfulness. Polluted — Reproached and blasphemed....