Ezekiel 20:7

Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. CAST YE AWAY EVERY MAN THE ABOMINATIONS OF HIS EYES. Moses gives no formal statement of idolatries practiced by Israel in Egypt. But it is implied in their readiness to worship the golden calf, resembling the Egyptian ox, Apis (Exodus 32:1), which makes it likely they had worshipped such idols in Egypt. Also, in Leviticus 17:7, "They shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils (literally, las`iyrim (H8163), 'unto he-goats,' the symbol of the false god Pan) after whom they have gone awhoring." The call of God by Moses was as much t...

Verse Ezekiel 20:7. _CAST YE AWAY - THE ABOMINATIONS_] Put away all your idols; those incentives to idolatry that ye have looked on with delight....

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...

THEN I SAID UNTO THEM,.... Having promised and swore to do such great and good things for them; which must lay them under an obligation to regard what he should command them: promises and blessings of goodness are great incentives to duty, and lay under great obligation to it: CAST YE AWAY EVERY MAN THE ABOMINATIONS OF HIS EYES; which should be so, meaning idols; but which his eyes were taken with, and were lifted up unto, as his gods; though they ought to have been rejected with the utmost abhorrence, as abominable: AND DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES WITH THE IDOLS OF EGYPT; their "dunghill gods", as the word f signifies; which to worship, as it was an abomination to God, was defiling to themselves; yet these they were fond of, and prone to worship them; their eyes and their hearts were after them; and they needed such cautions and instructions as these, backed with the following strong reason...

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,

EVERY MAN. Heb _. 'ish._ App-14. ABOMINATIONS. Put by Figure of speech _metonymy_ (of Cause, App-6, for that which Jehovah abominated. DEFILE NOT YOURSELVES, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:3). App-92. IDOLS. manufactured gods....

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:...

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 in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up My hand to them, saying, I am the LORD your God. (6) In that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them from the land of Egypt unto the land which I sought out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the beauty of all lands; (7) and I said unto them, Let each man cast away the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. (8) But they rebelled against Me, and they did not want to listen to Me; every man did not cast away the detestable things of his eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I thought to pour out My wrath upon them, to exhaust My anger on them in the mid...