Ezekiel 20:1
The seventh year — Of Zedekiah's reign, two years and five months before Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. Came — Yet resolved before — hand what they would do.... [ Continue Reading ]
The seventh year — Of Zedekiah's reign, two years and five months before Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. Came — Yet resolved before — hand what they would do.... [ Continue Reading ]
Are ye come — Are ye in good earnest?... [ Continue Reading ]
Wilt thou — Wilt thou not convince and reprove them? And denounce my judgments against them? The abominations — What their fathers have done, they approve, and have outdone; by that let them know what to expect.... [ Continue Reading ]
When I chose — When I shewed that I had chosen them. The history of the rebellions of the children of Israel, begins as early, as their beginning. So does the history of man's apostasy from his Maker. No sooner have we read the story of his creation, but we meet with that of his rebellion. So we see... [ Continue Reading ]
I had espied — God speaks after the manner of men. Milk and honey — Literally milk and honey in abundance were in the land of Canaan. Proverbially it speaks the plenty and abundance of all the blessings of life.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of his eyes — To which you have looked for help.... [ Continue Reading ]
To accomplish — To make an end of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
For my name's sake — For the glory of my mercy and faithfulness. Polluted — Reproached and blasphemed.... [ Continue Reading ]
A sign — Of their being peculiarly my people.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the wilderness — Where they most needed my care and favour; where the preserving their life from destruction by the noxious creatures, and from famine by the barrenness of the wilderness, was a continued miracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
I lifted up my hand — I sware. Them — So all the murmuring, disobedient, unbelieving generation was excluded, and their children were brought in.... [ Continue Reading ]
Walk ye not — Live not as your fathers did.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hallow — Remember to keep them holy.... [ Continue Reading ]
I withdrew — God seems to take the posture of one that was just going to smite, yet draws back that he might spare.... [ Continue Reading ]
I lifted — I sware.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore — Because they rejected my good laws and judgments. I gave them — Not by enjoining, but by permitting them to make such for themselves. Not good — That were pernicious to the users.... [ Continue Reading ]
Polluted — I permitted them to pollute themselves. Might know — Be forced to own, that the Lord is a mighty king in punishing those that would not have him a gracious king in governing them.... [ Continue Reading ]
What — What mean you that you go to the high place? What do you find so inviting there, that you will leave God's altar, where he requires your attendance, to frequent such places as he has forbidden you to worship in? Bamah — That is, the high place.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall I be enquired of — Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?... [ Continue Reading ]
And that — God to convince them, tells them what they think and have purposed. Shall not be — Shall be quite frustrated. We will be — Will unite with them in marriages, commerce, and religion too; and then we shall be safe among them.... [ Continue Reading ]
The people — Sidonians, Ammonites, Moabites, or whoever they were, to whom the apostate Jews betook themselves, where they thought to lurk, God will bring them thence into Babylonish captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bring you — Drive you. The wilderness — Into the most horrid parts of the world; into the mountainous parts of Media, Hyrcania, Iberia, Caspia, Albania, and Scythia. Plead with you — Pass sentence, and execute it on you.... [ Continue Reading ]
Your fathers — Who died there, and never entered Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will cause — I will bring you out by number, so that you shall either own my scepter, or by a conquered subjection, yield to my sword and power. Under the rod — Referring to the manner of shepherds in that country, who did tell their sheep in, and out of the fold. Bring you — The voluntary and obe... [ Continue Reading ]
The rebels — The stubborn sinners.... [ Continue Reading ]
But pollute — But while ye are such idolaters, forbear to take my name into your lips.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mine holy mountain — Sion, God's holy hill, Psalms 2:6. Holy by designation, and God's own appointing it for his temple and presence. Of the height — Sion, tho' lower than many other hills, yet was above them all for God's peculiar presence. In the land — Their own land. Your offerings — When I have... [ Continue Reading ]
Sanctified — Magnified and praised for the good I do to my people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Remember — Review your former ways with sorrow: remember, and grieve.... [ Continue Reading ]
The south — Look toward Jerusalem, and the land of Canaan. Drop thy word — Let thy word distil, begin with softer words, before thou shower down with the vehemency of a storm. The forest — Jerusalem, which was become like a forest.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every green tree — All that flourish, and all that are poor. All faces — All persons and orders of men, from one end of the land to the other.... [ Continue Reading ]
Parables — So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.... [ Continue Reading ]