Verse Ezekiel 20:5. I chose Israel] They did not choose me for their God, till I had chosen them to be my people.
I lifted up mine hand] I bound myself In a covenant to them to continue to be their God, if they should be faithful, and continue to be my people. Among the Jews the juror lifted up his right hand to heaven; which explains Psalms 144:8: "Their right hand is a right hand of falsehood." This is a form used in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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:...
WHEN. CHOSE ISRAEL, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 6:7; Exodus 20:2.Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 7:6). App-92. Put by Figure of speech Meto
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...
_when I chose Israel_ The choice or election of Israel is referred to only here in Ez., and also once in Jeremiah 33:24. The idea is much insisted on in Isaiah 40-66. Already, however, Deuteronomy 7:6...
WHEN I LIFTED UP MINE HAND— _Lifting up the hand,_ was a ceremony used in taking an oath: the meaning here is, "When I entered into a solemn covenant with them, pursuant to the oath I had sworn to the...
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...
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I l...
§ 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...
LIFTED UP MINE HAND] i.e. sware, and so in Ezekiel 20:6; Ezekiel 20:15; Ezekiel 20:23; Ezekiel 20:42....
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 *...
WHEN I CHOSE ISRAEL. — In Ezekiel 20:5 the Lord takes up the first, or Egyptian period of the history* of Israel. The record of that period, as it has come to us in the Pentateuch, does not contain ei...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י...
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 say to them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and (c) 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...
The Lord seems to appeal to the Prophet for his judgment to decide the equity of the Lord's cause; and, in order to enable the Prophet so to do, the Lord enters upon their history, from the servitude...
God confirms what I said before, that the Jews were not to be reproved for beginning lately to sin: it was not sufficient to bring recent offenses before them; but God orders the Prophet to begin with...
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 SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Here begins the account of their fathers; of God's unmerited goodness to them, and of their sins and transgressions against him, and how it fared with t...
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I li...
_In the day when I chose Israel_ When I entered into a solemn covenant. _And lifted up my hand_, &c. That is, _sware_ unto them, this being a gesture used in swearing: see the margin, and notes on Gen...
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when I chose Israel, selecting them, on the basis of His grace and mercy, from among the nations of the world, AND LIFTED UP MINE HAND UNTO THE S...
IN THE EARLY DAYS...
LIFTED UP: Or, sware, and so verse 6, etc....
IN THE DAY; at the time, the season; it speaks not of that precise portion of hours which make up the natural day, but of the time wherein God began to show them his great mercy. _When I chose_; it in...
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GOD'S DEALINGS WITH THEM IN EGYPT. “And say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, 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...
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 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...
Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 32:40; Deuteronomy 4:34;...
When I chose — When I shewed that I had chosen them. The history of the rebellions of the children of Israel, begins as early, as their beginning. So does the history of man's apostasy from his Maker....