Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 33:20
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Still blinded prejudice quarrels.
Judge; call you to account, plead with you, and pass sentence.
Every one: this is added to rouse every one up to repent of all sins, and of this particularly.
After his ways; a terrible threat, and I know not how a greater could be denounced against sinners than this. God, infinitely holy and perfectly just, will judge them according to their unequal, unrighteous, sinful ways, and according to his inflexible justice. And if God enter thus into judgment, who can stand in his sight?
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Yet ye say, the way of the Lord is not equal,…. Still obstinately persisting in their false charges, notwithstanding plain proofs to the contrary:
O ye house of Israel, I will judge you everyone after his ways;
[See comments on Eze 18:30].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them, “Behold I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and the lean cattle, because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad.”
The leaders and the wealthy were like the fat cattle that made use of their strength and bulk and thrust and push until the weak moved away and were scattered. They did not care about those for whom they were responsible, especially the sickly. They wanted to move them out so that there was more for themselves.
So God was making clear His displeasure at the current leadership of Israel, and the well-to-do, because they were like the rams and fat cattle. They had no time for the poor of the flock. And it is clear that He expected things to go on like that as He now revealed. He was under no illusion about the hearts of His so-called people. Indeed he recognised that there was only one hope, the raising of a man, a chosen man, a unique man, at His behest, to bring about His will.
There are many Christians today who also behave like this. They push people out of the way. They arrogantly exert their authority over others (often claiming to be humble). They too must recognise that God knows their hearts and will call them to account.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Ver. 20. Yet ye say. ] But therein ye lie, which is not the guise of God’s children. Isa 63:8
I will judge you every one after his ways.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the Lord. Hebrew. Adonai. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Yet: Eze 33:17, Eze 18:25, Eze 18:29, Pro 19:3
I will: Eze 18:30, Psa 62:12, Ecc 12:14, Mat 16:27, Joh 5:29, 2Co 5:10, Rev 20:12-15, Rev 22:12
Reciprocal: Job 8:3 – God Psa 17:2 – things Eze 7:3 – will judge
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 33:20. As a specific denial of the accusation made by the people that God is unequal or unfair. He declares that Israel will be judged every one after his ways.” not according to some decree made before the man was born. Since a man’s ways are his own doing, that places his fate within his hands whether good or evil.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The people persisted in claiming that the Lord’s ways of dealing with them were not just. Yet Yahweh assured them that He would deal with each of them fairly, according to their own individual behavior. God does not blame one person for another person’s sins.
In our day many people refuse to take personal responsibility for their lives and chose rather to blame someone else for the way they live (e.g. a parent, employer, teacher, abuser, the devil, God). We may not be responsible for the actions of others that have resulted in our present condition, but we are responsible for how we conduct ourselves in our present condition.
This message repeats God’s appointment of Ezekiel as a watchman over Israel (ch. 3) and His assurance of personal responsibility (chs. 3 and 18). Evidently the exiles had difficulty accepting this revelation. They tended to view Ezekiel as an entertainer (Eze 33:30-32) and God as unfair.