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Verse Ezekiel 20:3. _I WILL NOT BE INQUIRED OF BY YOU._] I will not
hear you. I will have nothing to do with you....
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ENQUIRE - As to the hope of deliverance from the Babylonians....
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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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SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1.
UNTO. with. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaean,
Septuagint, and Vulgate, read' unto".
THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL. In the Captivity; who were being...
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Introductory. Certain elders came to the prophet to enquire of the
Lord, in the seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin and tenth day
of the fifth month Aug. 590 b.c., four years before Jerusalem...
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_will not be inquired of_ The proposed enquiries of the elders
probably related to something in the present; to such men no answer
will be given except to read the lesson of Israel's history to them....
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CHAPTER TEN
ISRAEL: PAST AND FUTURE
20:1-21:32
Eleven months intervene between Ezekiel's last series of oracles and
the present utterances. He has effectively shattered Judah's insane
hope that judg...
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Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to inquire of me? As I live, saith the
Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
The chapter f...
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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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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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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 WILL NOT BE ENQUIRED OF BY YOU. — As in Ezekiel 14:3. St. Jerome
thus comments on the words: — “ To the holy, and to those who ask
for right things, the promise is given, ‘While they are yet
speakin...
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בֶּן ־אָדָ֗ם דַּבֵּ֞ר אֶת ־זִקְנֵ֤י
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙...
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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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The Prophet is exact to state the time of those elders coming to him;
perhaps it was the Sabbath day; and though ordinances were lost in
Babylon, yet, no doubt, some kept a remembrance of the Lord's d...
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Here the Prophet is ordered to blame those elders, although they
pretended to rare piety in inquiring of him: God says that they did
not come with a right disposition. Many translate otherwise — if 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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SON OF MAN, SPEAK UNTO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM,....
Give them this for an answer from me:
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, ARE YE COME TO INQUIRE OF ME? no; not
seriously, heartily, and in go...
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Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? [As] I live, saith
the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
Ver. 3. _Are...
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_It came to pass in the seventh year_, &c. Namely, of Jehoiakim's
captivity. All the prophecies recorded from the eighth chapter to
this, probably belong to the sixth year of that captivity. _Certain...
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IN THE EARLY DAYS...
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Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, giving them information
which was verbally the expression of the will of God, AND SAY UNTO
THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, the supreme Ruler of the universe...
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SON OF MAN: see EZEKIEL 2:3. SPEAK UNTO THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL; speak
plainly, boldly, and to their faces, fear not their frowns; if they
are deputies from Zedekiah, yet let not that character make thee...
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Ezekiel 20:3 Son H1121 man H120 speak H1696 (H8761) elders H2205
Israel H3478 say H559 (H8804) says...
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“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘Thus
says the Lord Yahweh, Have you come to enquire of me? As I live, says
the Lord Yahweh, I will not be enquired of by you.' ”
Note the...
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Ezekiel 20:1
I. There is no evidence that the elders showed penitence in coming to
inquire of the Lord. Ezekiel did not send the hungry empty away; he
alone as God's ambassador refused to answer those...
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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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_Certain of the elders. .. sat before me._
THE ELDERS BEFORE EZEKIEL
1. True religion is emphatically a walking with God, not a mere
occasional coming to Him. The precise manner in which the date is...
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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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THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ISRAEL (Chap. 20.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The date given in Ezekiel 20:1 applies also to
chap. 20–23. (compare chap. Ezekiel 24:1). These four Chapter s are
bound together...
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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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Are ye come — Are ye in good earnest?...