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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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Yet though he wrought for his name's sake not to destroy them their
sins could not be altogether passed by. In two ways they were marked:
Jehovah laid a heavy threat upon the people of dispersion amon...
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_might make them desolate_ Or, DESTROY THEM; less probably: horrify
them (ch. Ezekiel 32:10). The train of thought is the same as that
expressed in ch. Ezekiel 14:9. The penalty of sin is further delu...
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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 second generation in the wilderness. These only imitated the sins
of their fathers, Numbers 25:1-2; Deuteronomy 9:23-24; Deuteronomy
31:27....
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AND I POLLUTED THEM, &C.— The common interpretation, says Bishop
Warburton, is this: "I permitted them to fall into that wicked
inhumanity, whereby they were polluted and contaminated, in making
their...
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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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And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD....
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20:26 devoted (b-12) Lit. 'transferred,' or 'caused to pass [through
the fire].' see Note. ch. 16.21....
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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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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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TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE. — The word “fire” here, as in Ezekiel
16:21; Ezekiel 23:37, is not in the original, but is rightly supplied
from Ezekiel 20:31. The custom referred to was probably that of
co...
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וָ אֲטַמֵּ֤א אֹותָם֙ בְּ מַתְּנֹותָ֔ם
בְּ הַע
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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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And I polluted them in their own (m) gifts, in that they caused to
pass through [the fire] all the firstborn, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD.
(m)...
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I polluted them, &c. That is, I gave them up to such blindness, in
punishment of their offences, as to pollute themselves with the blood
of all their first-born, whom they offered up to their idols in...
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Thus slighted and despised by the fathers, the Lord looked to their
children, that the rising generation might not be rebellious as their
fathers had been. But the sin of rebellion, like a chain of ma...
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There is no doubt that God here continues the same doctrine’ hence
we gather that injurious laws were given to the people when they
adopted various errors and worshipped idols of their own fabrication...
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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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AND ONE POLLUTED THEM IN THEIR OWN GIFTS,.... Suffered them to defile
themselves; or declared them to be, and treated them as polluted
persons, in the gifts and sacrifices which they offered to idols,...
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And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through [the fire] all that openeth the womb, that I might make them
desolate, to the end that they might know that I [am] the LORD....
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_Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good_, &c. This some
understand of the ceremonial law, as if it were given purely to be a
check and restraint to that perverse people, consisting of numer...
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IN THE WILDERNESS...
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and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass
through the fire all that openeth the womb, thereby consecrating their
first-born children to Molech, the abomination of the Moabite...
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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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POLLUTED THEM; either I permitted them to pollute themselves, or
discovered that they had polluted themselves, or treated them with
loathing and abhorrence, as polluted persons. IN THEIR OWN GIFTS;
ei...
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Ezekiel 20:26 unclean H2930 (H8762) gifts H4979 firstborn H6363 H7356
through H5674 (H8687) desolate H8074 ...
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“Moreover I also gave them statutes which were not good, and
judgments in which they would not live, and I polluted them in their
own gifts in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened...
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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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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 20:22 The STATUTES THAT WERE NOT GOOD AND
RULES BY WHICH THEY COULD NOT HAVE LIFE are a mixture of Israelite and
pagan customs that the people followed. The fact that they were...
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(Ezekiel 20:18.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet describes the sins of the generation
that grew up in the desert.
Ezekiel 20:18. “BUT I SAID UNTO THEIR CHILDREN.” The second
generation of the children...
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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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2 Chronicles 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6; 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 21:6;...
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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....