What does Ezekiel 33:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways."
II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48) Chapter S 33-34 A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd _ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and this alike for himself and his hearers. EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they are responsible fo...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Adonai_. App-4....
Despondency of the people, making the prophet's appeals to them of none effect. Removal of the despair by two gracious words from the Lord....
B. The Possibilities of Repentance 33:10-20 TRANSLATION (10) And as for you, son of man, say unto the house of Israel, Thus you have said: Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we waste aw...
_WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS TURNETH FROM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND COMMITTETH INIQUITY, HE SHALL EVEN DIE THEREBY._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE PROPHET AND THE INDIVIDUAL This passage combines an expanded repetition of Ezekiel 3:17 with a condensed repetition of Ezekiel 18:5. The prophet is a watchman, responsible for warning his people o...
וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם לֹ֥א יִתָּכֵ֖ן דֶּ֣רֶךְ אֲדֹנָ֑י אִ֧ישׁ כִּ דְרָכָ֛יו אֶשְׁפֹּ֥וט אֶתְכֶ֖ם בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פ...
THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN Ezekiel 33:1 ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity with which in the East in...
Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
That I may not swell the bulk of this Commentary more than necessary, I refer the Reader to the observations made on Ezekiel 18:1 of this same prophecy, from Ezekiel 18:23 to the end; for the scriptur...
In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations, and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
YET YE SAY, THE WAY OF THE LORD IS NOT EQUAL,.... Still obstinately persisting in their false charges, notwithstanding plain proofs to the contrary: O YE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, I WILL JUDGE YOU EVERYONE AF...
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. Ver. 20. _Yet ye say._] But therein ye lie, which is not the guise of God's children. Is...
THE PROPHET AS A WATCHMAN...
10-20 Those who despaired of finding mercy with God, are answered with a solemn declaration of God's readiness to show mercy. The ruin of the city and state was determined, but that did not relate to...
Still blinded prejudice quarrels. JUDGE; call you to account, plead with you, and pass sentence. EVERY ONE: this is added to rouse every one up to repent of all sins, and of this particularly. AFTER H...
Ezekiel 33:20 say H559 (H8804) way H1870 Lord H136 fair H8505 (H8735) house H1004 Israel H3478 judge H8199 (H8799) one H376 ways H1870 Yet - Ezekiel 33:17, Ezekiel 18:25, Ezekiel 18:29;...
“But as for them their way is not equal (fairly weighed). When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will even die in it. And when the wicked turns from his wickedness an...
Ezekiel 33:1. _Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who are not sincere in their professions. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham. CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:1 After the Fall of Jerusalem. Following the central collection of foreign-nation oracles, the focus returns to Judah (or “the house of Israel,” as Ezekiel usually calls it)...
EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again. The early portion of the chapte...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 33:1 If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those captives who are in Babylon. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
2 Corinthians 5:10; Ecclesiastes 12:14; Ezekiel 18:25; Ezekiel 18:29; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 33:17; John 5:29; Matthew 16:27; Proverbs 19:3;...