Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 20:1
The elders of Israel - These were as in Ezekiel 14:1, some of Ezekiel’s fellow-exiles, designated in general terms by the name of Israel, though more properly belonging to the kingdom of Judah.
The elders of Israel - These were as in Ezekiel 14:1, some of Ezekiel’s fellow-exiles, designated in general terms by the name of Israel, though more properly belonging to the kingdom of Judah.
CHAPTER XX _A deputation of the elders of Israel, as usual, in their_ _distress, came to request Ezekiel to ask counsel of God_, 1. _In reply to this, God commands the prophet to put them in mind_...
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 SEVENTH YEAR. See the table on p. 1105. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_, with _'eth_ (= Jehovah Himself). App-4....
Further predictions regarding the fall of Jerusalem These Chapter s pursue the same subject as occupied the prophet in previous Chapter s, the destruction of the state, though they appear to look at...
Introductory. Certain elders came to the prophet to enquire of the Lord, in the seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin and tenth day of the fifth month Aug. 590 b.c., four years before Jerusalem...
IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVENTH YEAR— That is, from the captivity of Jeconiah: see chap. Ezekiel 8:1. The occasion of the prophesy in the present chapter was this. The Jews, by certain of their elders,...
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 judg...
And 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. SEVENTH YEAR ... - name...
§ 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...
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...
THE SEVENTH YEAR.. THE FIFTH _month_] July-August, 590 b.c....
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 *...
CAME TO ENQUIRE. — It does not appear that the elders actually proposed their enquiry. It doubtless had relation not to personal affairs, but to the welfare of the nation, and in this prophecy the Lor...
וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בַּ † שָּׁנָ֣ה הַ שְּׁבִיעִ֗ית...
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...
And it came to pass in the (a) seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth [day] of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of the LORD, and sat before me. (a) Of the capt...
_Month: the year of the world 3411, August 27. (Usher) --- Ezechiel had prophesied in the fourth year; they was silent a year and two months, or 430 days. He opened his mouth again in the sixth year,...
CONTENTS In this chapter we have a brief relation how the Lord had dealt with Israel through a long series of years, and how sadly they had requited His mercy. There are many sweet tokens of divine l...
The Prophet is exact to state the time of those elders coming to him; perhaps it was the Sabbath day; and though ordinances were lost in Babylon, yet, no doubt, some kept a remembrance of the Lord's d...
Here he does not narrate a vision but an event which really happened. It is a simple historical narrative, that some of the elders of Israel were chosen to interrogate him. We know this to be customar...
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...
AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SEVENTH YEAR,.... Of Zedekiah's reign, and of the captivity of Jeconiah; from whence the dates of Ezekiel's visions and prophecies are taken, Ezekiel 1:2; two years, one mon...
And 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 enquire of the LORD, and sat before me. Ver. 1. _And it cam...
_It came to pass in the seventh year_, &c. Namely, of Jehoiakim's captivity. All the prophecies recorded from the eighth chapter to this, probably belong to the sixth year of that captivity. _Certain...
IN THE EARLY DAYS...
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, about in the middle of the first period of Ezekiel's prophetic activity, THAT CERTAIN OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL,...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 20 God refuseth to be consulted by the elders of Israel, EZEKIEL 20:1. He rehearseth the rebellions of their ancestors in Egypt, EZEKIEL 20:4; in the wilderness, EZEKIEL 20:10; and in...
Ezekiel 20:1 seventh H7637 year H8141 fifth H2549 tenth H6218 month H2320 certain H582 elders H2205 Israel H3478 came
THE APPROACH OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL. ‘And so it was in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to enquire of Yahweh, and sat befor...
FIFTH MONTH That is, August....
Ezekiel 20:1 I. There is no evidence that the elders showed penitence in coming to inquire of the Lord. Ezekiel did not send the hungry empty away; he alone as God's ambassador refused to answer those...
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...
_Certain of the elders. .. sat before me._ THE ELDERS BEFORE EZEKIEL 1. True religion is emphatically a walking with God, not a mere occasional coming to Him. The precise manner in which the date is...
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....
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ISRAEL (Chap. 20.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The date given in Ezekiel 20:1 applies also to chap. 20–23. (compare chap. Ezekiel 24:1). These four Chapter s are bound together...
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 Kings 14:2; 1 Kings 22:15; 2 Kings 3:13; Acts 22:3; Ezekiel 1:2;...
The seventh year — Of Zedekiah's reign, two years and five months before Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. Came — Yet resolved before — hand what they would do....