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Verse Ezekiel 20:12. _I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS_] The religious
observance of the Sabbath was the _first statute_ or _command_ of God
to men. This institution was _a sign between God and them_, to keep...
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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,...
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CHAPTER S 20-24
Further and Final Predictions Concerning the judgment of Jerusalem
_ 1. Jehovah rehearses His mercies bestowed upon Israel (Ezekiel 20:1)
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2. The impending judgment announced (Ezek...
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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:...
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I GAVE THEM, &c. Ref, to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:8; Exodus 31:13).
THAT THEY MIGHT KNOW. COMPARE note on Ezekiel 6:10....
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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...
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The people delivered from Egypt and brought into the wilderness. There
also Jehovah wrought for his name's sake....
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_my sabbaths_ The plural refers to the stated recurrence of the day;
other festivals are not included.
_to be a sign_ The prophet does not speak of the Sabbath as an older
institution than the exodus,...
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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...
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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...
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Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND THEM - a ki...
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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...
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§ 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...
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MY SABBATHS, TO BE A SIGN] Though Ezekiel attached great importance to
the sabbath, he regarded it not as one of the moral ordinances,
obedience to which brings life (Ezekiel 20:11), but rather as a
s...
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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 *...
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I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS. — “Not because it is of Moses, but of the
fathers” (John 7:22). The Sabbath, like circumcision, was an
institution far older than the period here spoken of, but was now
comman...
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וְ גַ֤ם אֶת ־שַׁבְּתֹותַי֙ נָתַ֣תִּי
לָהֶ֔ם ל
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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...
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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...
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_Sign, as also to promote piety and instruction._...
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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...
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_MY SABBATHS_
‘I gave them My sabbaths.’
Ezekiel 20:12
‘I gave them My sabbaths,’ says God. It is a gift worthy of such a
transcendent Giver.
I. FOR THE SABBATH BRINGS ME RELIEF AND QUIETUDE.—Sep...
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Besides the law God here commends his Sabbaths, which we know to be
only a part of His law: nay, whoever compares the commandments one by
one, will at first sight perceive more weight in others than i...
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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...
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MOREOVER, ALSO, I GAVE THEM MY SABBATHS,.... The Targum is,
"the days of the sabbaths;''
or sabbath days, the seventh day sabbaths, which recurring throughout
the year are many; but, besides these,...
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Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and
them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that sanctify them.
Ver. 12. _Moreover also, I gave them my Sabbaths._] A sweet merc...
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_Moreover, I gave them my sabbaths_ Including the weekly sabbaths, the
sabbatical years, and all the solemn days of divine worship, in which
no servile work was to be done: _to be a sign between me an...
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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...
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I GAVE; both commanded, and also sanctified, those portions of time to
be holy rests. MY SABBATHS; either the weekly sabbath, which,
recurring every seventh day, soon multiplied into many, and was to...
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Ezekiel 20:12 gave H5414 (H8804) Sabbaths H7676 sign H226 know H3045
(H8800) LORD H3068 sanctifies H6942 ...
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“Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and
them that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.”
The importance of the sabbath as a sign that Israel were God's peopl...
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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...
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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...
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_I gave them My Sabbaths._
THE PRACTICAL DUTIES OF THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH
Let two remarks be premised. We enforce not the duties of the Jewish
but of the Christian Sabbath. Everything in the Christian...
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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....
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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
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:9 BUT I ACTED FOR THE SAKE OF MY NAME (v.
Ezekiel 20:9; see vv....
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(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...
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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
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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...
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1 Thessalonians 5:23; Colossians 2:16; Deuteronomy 5:12; Exodus 16:29;...
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A sign — Of their being peculiarly my people....