Verse Ezekiel 20:11. I gave them my statutes] I showed them what they should do in order to be safe, comfortable, wise, and happy; and what they should avoid in order to be uninjured in body, mind, and possessions. Had they attended to these things, they should have lived by them. They would have been holy, healthy, and happy.
The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Ezekiel 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai,...
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 GAVE THEM, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:8). STATUTES.. JUDGMENTS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:1). WHICH IF. MAN DO, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:5). m
The people delivered from Egypt and brought into the wilderness. There also Jehovah wrought for his name's sake....
_gave them … statutes_ Reference is to the Sinaitic legislation. The fact of the legislation is, confirmed by the prophet, but his language "statutes and judgments" does not enable us to form an opini...
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...
I GAVE THEM MY STATUTES— That is, says Bishop Warburton, he gave them the moral law of the decalogue, in which there was one positive institution, and no more; but this one absolutely necessary to pre...
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 mad...
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them. MY JUDGMENT, WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL EVEN LIVE IN THEM - quoted from . Not 'by them,' a...
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...
Referring to the Law given at Sinai....
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 *...
HE SHALL EVEN LIVE IN THEM. — Comp. Deuteronomy 30:15. It becomes plain, on a careful perusal of this passage, that what was required was not a mere outward, technical, and perfunctory keeping of cert...
וָ אֶתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ אֶת ־חֻקֹּותַ֔י וְ אֶת
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...
_Live, and enjoy temporal felicity, which was chief promised, though the faithful observers of the law would obtain an eternal reward._...
Here we have the history carried on to the wilderness dispensation. If, as some say, the direct road to Canaan might have been accomplished in a few days, the Lord's keeping them there forty years pla...
Here God enlarges upon his favors, since he had given his law to the Israelites, as if he would prescribe to them a certain rule of living. If they had only been brought out of Egypt, that would have...
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 GAVE THEM MY STATUTES,.... The precepts of his law, the law on Mount Sinai, of which there were not the like among other nations; nor were they given unto them, but were a special gift unto Isra...
And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them. Ver. 11. _And I gave them my statutes._] Which were far beyond the laws of the twelve table...
_Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of Egypt_ Removed all obstacles, furnished them with all necessaries, went before them, and showed them the way they should go, Exodus 13:17; _And brought them...
IN THE WILDERNESS...
And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, namely, in the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, WHICH IF A MAN DO, HE SHALL EVEN LIVE IN THEM, for a perfect keeping of the Law would indeed...
SHEWED THEM: _ Heb._ made them to know...
10-26. The history of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the new Testament as well as in the Old, for warning. God did great things for them. He gave them the law, and revived the ancient kee...
I, who spared them in Egypt, had brought them forth, and owned them as the children of Abraham my friend: God gave his law by Moses, and now Israel's laws are really of Divine origin, when others did...
Ezekiel 20:11 gave H5414 (H8799) statutes H2708 showed H3045 (H8689) judgments H4941 man H120 does H6213 ...
GOD'S DELIVERANCE IN THE WILDERNESS. “So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. And I gave them my statutes and showed them my judgments, which if a...
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...
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—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:9 BUT I ACTED FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME (v. Ezekiel 20:9; see vv....
(Ezekiel 20:10) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The sin of the first generation of Israelites in the wilderness: yet the Lord did not make an end of them. Ezekiel 20:11. “AND I GAVE THEM MY STATUTES, AND SHOWED 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...
Deuteronomy 20:15; Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 4:8; Ezekiel 20:13;...