Bible Commentary

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone. 32. The prophet regards the worship on the high-places as Canaanitish heathenism; but probably many of the exiles to whom he spoke were … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:32”

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you. 31. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:31”

Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations? 30. Are ye polluted ] do ye pollute yourselves? Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 30, 31. The Lord will not give himself to be … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:30”

Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. 29. 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 (2Sa 1:19), and in Moabite (Mesha’s inscrip.). The prophet … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:29”

[For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:28”

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. 27. Yet in this ] i.e. the following act, Eze 20:28, cf. Eze 23:38. have blasphemed ] Past tense: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:27”

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. 26. might make them desolate ] Or, destroy them; less probably: horrify them (ch. Eze … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:26”

Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; 25. Wherefore I gave also ] Moreover also I gave, see Eze 20:23. statutes not good ] These statutes are of a kind contrary to those given before ( Eze 20:11) which were good. These points seem plain: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:25”

Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. The whole 24th verse is already explained Eze 4:16, which see. They, that travelled through the wilderness, had not executed my judgments, in all that forty years, wherein their fathers … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:24”

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; 23. I lifted up also ] Moreover I lifted up, lit. And I on my part, so Eze 20:25. scatter among the heathen ] The people entered Canaan laden with … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 20:23”