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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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The people on their entry and in their abode in Canaan....
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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20:29 Bamah (d-20) Meaning, 'High place.'...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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וָ אֹמַ֣ר אֲלֵהֶ֔ם מָ֣ה הַ בָּמָ֔ה
אֲשֶׁר
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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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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence...
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I SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT IS THE HIGH PLACE:
Or, I told them what the high place was, or Bamah...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 20:29 said H559 (H8799) place H1116 go H935 (H8802) name H8034
called H7121 (H8735) Bamah...
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“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...
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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 20:27 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
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(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...
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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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Ezekiel 16:24; Ezekiel 16:25; Ezekiel 16:31...
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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...