Ezekiel 20:6

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 lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God; IN THE DAY WHEN I ... LIFTED UP MINE HAND ... LIFTED UP MINE HAND ... LIFTED UP MINE HAND UNTO THEM. The thrice lifting up of God's hand (the sign of His oath, Revelation 10:5; , margin; ; to which passages the form of words here alludes) implies the solemn earnestness of God's purpose of grace to them. The lifting up of the hand toward heaven was the appeal of man to Him who reigns there. When He Himself, in figurative language, lifts it up...

Verse Ezekiel 20:6. _TO BRING THEM FORTH OF THE LAND OF EGYPT_] When they had been long in a very disgraceful and oppressive bondage. _A LAND THAT I HAD ESPIED FOR THEM_] God represents himself as having _gone over different countries_ in order to _find_ a comfortable residence for these people, whom he considered as his children. _FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY_] These were the characteristics of a _happy_ and _fruitful country_, producing without intense labour all the _necessaries_ and _comforts_ of life. Of the happiest state and happiest place, a fine poet gives the following description: - Ver erat aeternum, placidique tepentibus auris Mulcebant Zephyri natos sine semine flores....

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 20:5 LIFTED UP MINE HAND - i. e., sware, because the hand was lifted up in adjuration. Ezekiel 20:8 IDOLS OF EGYPT - These incidental notices show the children of Israel in Egypt to have been addicted to idolatry. Compare Joshua 24:14. Ezekiel 20:9 I wrought for my name’s sake -

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 prophecies of the intervening chapters had been written or spoken. We may note further that it was two years one month and five days after the prophet's call to his work (Ezekiel 1:1.), and two years and five months before the Chaldeans besieged Jerusalem (Ezekiel 24:1). The immediate occasion here, as in...

IN THE DAY [THAT] I LIFTED UP MY HAND UNTO THEM, TO BRING THEM FORTH OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,.... Not only promised and swore to it, but exerted his power in the miracles he wrought, by bringing plagues upon the Egyptians, to oblige them to let them go forth from thence: INTO A LAND THAT I HAD ESPIED FOR THEM; which he had in his eye and in his heart for them; which he had in his mind provided for them, and was determined in his purposes to bring them to; and which he, as it were, looked out for them, and singled out as the best and most suitable for them: FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY; a phrase often used, to express the fruitfulness of the land, of Canaan, and the great plenty of provisions in it: WHICH [IS] THE GLORY OF ALL LANDS; that is, either which fertility, signified by milk and honey, is the glory of all lands, or makes all countries desirable where they are found; or else, which...

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 (Ezekiel 21:1) 3. Jerusalem's sins and whoredom (Ezekiel 22:1; Ezekiel 23:1) 4. The parable of the boiling pot and the last word (Ezekiel 24:1) Ezekiel 20:1. The chapter contains a divine retrospect and an arraignment of th

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 8:1): and as the doom draws nearer, the prophet grows fiercer. This lurid sketch of Israel's ancient sins, which partly recalls ch. 16, was occasioned by a visit of some elders (_cf. Ezekiel 8:1_, Ezekiel 14:1), who put to him a question which though not recorded, may perhaps be inferred from Ezekiel 20:32. It seems probable that, in disgust and despair,

THE. that. BRING THEM FORTH, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:8; Deuteronomy 8:9). App-92. ESPIED. looked, or spied out, FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5;...

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, otherwise their sins would have cut them off. For his name's sake he spared the people in Egypt (Ezekiel 20:9), again in the wilderness (Ezekiel 20:14), and again the second generation there (Ezekiel 20:22). The history is reviewed in these divisions: Ezekiel 20:5 Israel in Egypt; Ezekiel 20:11 the people led out into the wilderness:...

FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY— Bochart, Hier. p. ii. lib. iv. c. xii. 520 observes, that this phrase occurs about twenty times in the Scriptures; and that it is an image frequently used in the classics. _THE GLORY OF ALL LANDS_— The construction of this expression may be, "This [circumstance of flowing with milk and honey] is a glory to all lands." But the rendering of Vitringa, _"Quae est egregia inter omnes terras,"_ is a probable one, and founded in truth. "That land is the glory." Secker. _"Judaea uber solum. Exuberant fruges nostrum ad morem."_ Tac. Hist. v. sec. 6. Commentators understand _fruges_ of corn, wine, and olives. _"Non minor loci ejus apricitatis quam ubertatis admiratio est,"_ says Justin of the valley of Jericho, lib. xxxvi. c. iii. Josephus represents Galilee as wholly under culture, and everywhere fruitful; as throughout abounding in pastures, planted with all kinds of...