To pass under the rod. — A figure taken from the shepherd’s way of counting and examining his flock. (Comp. Leviticus 27:32; Jeremiah 33:13; Micah 7:14.) By this the people were to be brought “into the land of the covenant,” selected and reconstituted God’s covenant people.
Verse Ezekiel 20:37. _I WILL CAUSE YOU TO PASS UNDER THE ROD_] This alludes to the custom of _tithing_ the _sheep_. I take it from the rabbins. The sheep were all penned; and the shepherd stood at th...
God’s future dealings with His people: (1) in judgment Ezekiel 20:32; (2) in mercy Ezekiel 20:39....
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...
THE RESTORATION OF THE FUTURE. But after all, Yahweh has chosen Israel (Ezekiel 20:5) for a purpose, and that purpose must not be frustrated; and despite the sin and darkness of the present, Ezekiel l...
PASS UNDER THE ROD. This was the manner of counting the sheep, which were numbered as _they_ passed under the shepherd's club: implying here that none should be lost (Amos 9:9), and that the restored...
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...
_to pass under the rod_ According to the usage of the language (Leviticus 27:32, cf. Jeremiah 33:13) the rod or staff here is that of the shepherd, which he uses in counting his flock. "The shepherds...
DISCOURSE: 1108 CONVERSION, IN ITS COMMENCEMENT AND PROGRESS Ezekiel 20:37. _I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant_. THE precise import of these w...
AND THAT WHICH COMETH INTO YOUR MIND— By all this it appears, that this rebellious people were not anxious to avoid their approaching captivity, denounced and threatened by all the prophets. What they...
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...
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: I WILL CAUSE YOU TO PASS UNDER THE ROD - metaphor from a shepherd who makes his sheep pass under his ro...
§ 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...
THE ROD] the shepherd's rod, used in counting the flock (Leviticus 27:32). THE BOND OF THE COVENANT] The old covenant made at Sinai will be renewed. Ezekiel does not contemplate such a difference betw...
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 *...
וְ הַעֲבַרְתִּ֥י אֶתְכֶ֖ם תַּ֣חַת הַ שָּׁ֑בֶט...
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...
_Covenant of the gospel, by the powerful attractions of grace, Luke xiv. 24., John vi. 69., and vii. 46., and 2 Corinthians x. 4._...
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 kind of instruction, that the people were not permitted to perish because they belonged to him, as if he had said that they should be always his, whether they liked it or not. A...
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 I WILL CAUSE YOU TO PASS UNDER THE ROD,.... That is, such whom God will not take vengeance on, and shall not die in the wilderness of the people; but whom he will have mercy on, and show favour to...
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: Ver. 37. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant...
_I will cause you to pass under the rod_ Of punishment. I will bring you under the chastisement due to you for breaking my covenant. Or there may be an allusion to the custom of numbering flocks and h...
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, as a shepherd does with his sheep, in order to determine their number and thus to prepare their benefits, AND I WILL BRING YOU INTO THE BOND OF THE COVENANT...
Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence...
BOND: Or, delivering...
33-44 The wicked Israelites, notwithstanding they follow the sinful ways of other nations, shall not mingle with them in their prosperity, but shall be separated from them for destruction. There is n...
I will bring you out by number, yet so as you shall either by a voluntary submission own my sceptre and government, or by a conquered subjection yield to my sword and power. UNDER THE ROD; either refe...
Ezekiel 20:37 pass H5674 (H8689) rod H7626 bring H935 (H8689) bond H4562 covenant H1285 pass -...
ROD The passage is a prophecy of the future judgment upon Israel, regathered from all nations (see "Israel," (Isaiah 1:24) refs. Into the old wilderness wanderings. (Ezekiel 20:35). The issue of this...
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 will bring you into the bond of the covenant._ THE BOND OF THE COVENANT This striking utterance was given forth by Ezekiel when Israel, scattered in every country, had begun to forget their nation...
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 20:33 As in the exodus, God will bring the people to the desert (v. Ezekiel 20:34). There he will judge between the faithful and the wicked (vv....
(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...
Amos 3:2; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 34:17; Jeremiah 33:13
I will cause — I will bring you out by number, so that you shall either own my scepter, or by a conquered subjection, yield to my sword and power. Under the rod — Referring to the manner of shepherds...