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Verse Ezekiel 20:49. _AH LORD GOD_] O my God, consider my situation;
who will believe what I shall say? They put the evil day far from
them.
_DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES?_] הלא ממשל משלים הוא _halo
me...
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This paragraph is in the Hebrew text, Septuagint and Vulgate the
beginning of Ezekiel 21 to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy
delivered in a form which is there explained. It may, however, b...
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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 20:45 TO EZEKIEL 21:32. THE TERRIBLE SWORD OF NEBUCHADREZZAR.
Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological
oratory is followed by a poem this time a wild irregular dithyra...
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PARABLES. Thus intended to have the same purpose as the Lord's
parables. See Matthew 13:11....
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Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord
The passage Ezekiel 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time
to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of
Nebu...
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DISCOURSE: 1110
MEN’S TREATMENT OF THE GOSPEL
Ezekiel 20:49. _Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not
speak parables?_
THE word of God, by whomsoever spoken, should be received with
rev...
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DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES?— Though these prophesies were clear
enough, if they would have given themselves the trouble to have
considered and compared them with the state of things; yet, as the
under...
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III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT
20:45-21:32
In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter
21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the
Authorized Version an...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME. An introductory brief
description, in enigma, of the destruction by fire and sword detailed
more exp...
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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
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God is patient. He gives people every opportunity to...
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DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES? — Or enigmas — things that we cannot
understand. This the prophet did designedly, as he had done in other
cases, to awaken the attention of the people to the explanation he...
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_[Ezekiel 21:5]_ וָ אֹמַ֕ר אֲהָ֖הּ אֲדֹנָ֣י
יְהוִ֑ה הֵ֚מָּה אֹמְרִ֣ים לִ֔י הֲ
לֹ֛א מְמַשֵּׁ֥ל מְשָׁלִ֖ים...
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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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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak (z)
parables?
(z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he
desires the Lord to give them a plain declaration of it....
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_Parables. They were easy enough to understand, but the Jews would not
comprehend them no more than our Saviour's words, John x. 24.
(Calmet)_...
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This seems a new discourse, or, if it be not, it is only as a
postscript to a letter. The former was delivered concerning the Church
in Babylon, and this is directed concerning the people at Jerusalem...
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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 SAID I, AH LORD GOD!.... The Septuagint version is, "by no means,
Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such an errand; at least,
let it not be delivered in such figurative terms; or let no...
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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
Ver. 49. _Doth he not speak parables?_] _Nonne artifex est parabolarum
iste? Qui erga non vult intelligi, vult negligi._ _a_ He i...
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_Moreover, the word of the Lord_, &c. Here we have a new prophecy,
with which Houbigant, following many learned commentators, begins the
xxist chapter, and that very properly; for what is contained in...
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THE PICTURE OF THE FOREST FIRE...
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45-49 Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, as a forest of
trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who
bring not forth the fruits of righteousness. When He will ruin a
na...
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When the prophet had done his duty, and prophesied, and they should
have heard and understood, he returns with a complaint of their
quarrelling, censuring, flouting, and reproaching him for it: one
wh...
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Ezekiel 20:49 said H559 (H8799) Ah H162 Lord H136 GOD H3069 say H559
(H8802) speak H4911 (H8764) parables H4912
Doth - Matthew 13:13-14; John 16:25; Acts 17:18...
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‘Then said I, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, they say of me, is he not one who
tells stories (or ‘a riddler of riddles')?” '
Here we have a very human touch. In spite of being the mouthpiece of
Yahweh Ezekiel is...
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Ezekiel 20:49
Nothing is more disheartening, if we must believe it to be true, than
the language in which some persons talk of the difficulties of the
Scriptures, and the absolute certainty that diff...
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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 th...
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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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_Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables._
MYSTERY AND DOGMA IN RELIGION
There is a tone of remonstrance and expostulation in these words of
the prophet. He is evidently conscious tha...
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(Ezekiel 20:45)
EXEGETICAL NOTES. The destruction of Jerusalem under the image of a
forest devoured by fire.
A comparison of these verses with Ezekiel 21:2, shows that they belong
properly to Ch. 21...
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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 prophec...
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CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21.
THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD.
THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed,
should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
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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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Acts 17:18; John 16:25; Matthew 13:13; Matthew 13:14...
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Parables — So absolutely, that we cannot understand him....