Is called Bamah. — Bamah itself means high place. Some have fancied that the word is derived from the two words “go” and “where,” and therefore that it contains a play upon the question in the first part of the verse; but this etymology must be considered fanciful.
Verse Ezekiel 20:29. _WHAT_ IS _THE HIGH PLACE_] מה הבמה _mah habbamah_, "what is the high place?" What is it good for? Its being a _high_ _place_ shows it to be a _place of idolatry_. I called it במה...
The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel. Ezekiel 20:27 YET IN THIS - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for t...
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 (Ezek...
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:...
WHAT IS THE HIGH PLACE... ? Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew oath _habhamdh,_ for emphasis, to mark the contrast between this idolatrous high place and Zion the true high and holy...
The word _bamah_, "high-place," has no certain etymology, though often used and at an early period, e.g. in David's elegy on Saul (2 Samuel 1:19), and in Moabite (Mesha's inscrip.). The prophet here i...
The people on their entry and in their abode in Canaan....
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...
SON OF MAN, SPEAK UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL— This prophesy hitherto contains a declaration of the various punishments inflicted on the rebellious Israelites, from the time of Moses's mission to the pre...
THEN I SAID UNTO THEM— _And though I said unto them, What is the high place in which you assemble? yet the high place retained its name even to this day._ Houbigant. See commentary on Ezekiel 20:27...
D. Israel in Canaan 20:27-29 TRANSLATION (27) Therefore speak unto the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in that they...
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. YE...
20:29 Bamah (d-20) Meaning, 'High place.'...
§ 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...
A play upon words, 'What (_mah_).. go (_ba_)?' Bamah is the Hebrew for 'high place,' and by this punning derivation of the word (not of course the true one) Ezekiel expresses his contempt for the thin...
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...
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 *...
וָ אֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מָ֣ה הַ בָּמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר
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...
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...
Then I said to them, What [is] the high place to which ye go? And its name is called (o) Bamah to this day. (o) Which signifies a high place, declaring that they vaunted themselves of their idolatry...
_Called high. Hebrew, "Bamah," (Haydock) out of contempt. (Calmet) --- The Jews were so much attached to the high places, that they called the altar of the Lord by the same name. Thus heretics are con...
The Lord is still expostulating with His people for their transgressions; and the Lord shows the folly, as well as the sin, of Israel in going to those high places for sacrifice, for what could any or...
Although there is no ambiguity in the Prophet’s words, yet the sentence seems frigid, and interpreters, in my judgment, have not understood the Prophet’s meaning. It may seem spiritless, that God shou...
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...
THEN I SAID UNTO THEM,.... By his prophets that he sent unto them: WHAT IS THE HIGH PLACE WHERE, UNTO YOU GO? what is the name of it? what is the use of it? to what end do you go there? is there not...
Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. Ver. 29. _And the name thereof is called Bamah,_] _i.e., _ A high place; a name go...
_Therefore, son of man, speak_, &c. Here the prophet proceeds with the story of their rebellions for their further humiliation, and shows that they persisted in them after they were settled in the lan...
Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah, that is, height, UNTO THIS DAY. In spite of the Lord's remonstrance, Israel and Judah continued to...
Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence...
I SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT IS THE HIGH PLACE: Or, I told them what the high place was, or Bamah...
27-32 The Jews persisted in rebellion after they settled in the land of Canaan. And these elders seem to have thought of uniting with the heathen. We make nothing by our profession if it be but a prof...
THEN; when they were intent upon this horrid course of sin, God pleaded by his messengers, and prophets, and law, and some faithful priests, What mean you, that ye go to the high place? should you not...
Ezekiel 20:29 said H559 (H8799) place H1116 go H935 (H8802) name H8034 called H7121 (H8735) Bamah...
“Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place mean to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day. This sentence is a play on words. ‘Bamah' means ‘high place. But ‘ba' means ‘go' and ‘m...
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...
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...
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....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 20:27 As Ezekiel turns from history to application, life in the land itself is in view for the first time. On worship on the high places (vv. Ezekiel 20:28), see note on
(Ezekiel 20:27) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Israel continued to commit these sins in Canaan also, and still refuses to give them up. Ezekiel 20:27. “YET IN THIS YOUR FATHERS HAVE BLASPHEMED ME, IN THAT THEY HA...
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
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...
Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:31...
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...