エゼキエル書 20:16-17 JCB

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:1-44

History Repeating itselfSome 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 enquiry was insincere, and this passage is consequently an illustration of the principle of Ezekiel 14:3. The exiles were beginning to avow idolatrous tendencies (Ezekiel 20:32), with which the elders were in secret sympathy. Ezekiel recounted how God had dealt with Israel’s idolatrous spirit in the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:1-49

§ 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 to the exiles against idolatry (Eze 20:1-44), a description of the sword of the Lord directed against Jerusalem (Eze 20:45 to Eze 21:27), a short prophecy against the Ammonites, connected with the foregoing (Eze 21:28-32) an indictment of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 22:0), an allegorical history of the sins... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 20:1-49

Ezekiel 20:16 Here enters the fatal circumstance of Idolatry, that, in the era of the Prophets, no man's mind is any longer honestly filled with his Idol or Symbol. Before the Prophet can arise who, seeing through it, knows it to be mere wood, many men must have begun dimly to doubt that it was little more. Condemnable Idolatry is insincere idolatry.... It is equivalent to what we call Formalism, and Worship of Formulas, in these days of ours. No more immoral act can be done by a human... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:1-49

JEHOVAH’S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAELEzekiel 20:1-49BY 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 change which must precede the establishment of the kingdom of God; and he had already addressed to them words of consolation based on the knowledge that the hope of the future was theirs. {Ezekiel 11:18} Yet the time passed on without bringing any indications that the promise was about to be... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 20:1-49

CHAPTERS 20-24 Further and Final Predictions Concerning the judgment of Jerusalem 1. Jehovah rehearses His mercies bestowed upon Israel (Ezekiel 20:1-49 ) 2. The impending judgment announced (Ezekiel 21:1-32 ) 3. Jerusalem’s sins and whoredom (Ezekiel 22:1-31 ; Ezekiel 23:1-49 ) 4. The parable of the boiling pot and the last word (Ezekiel 24:1-27 ) Ezekiel 20:1-49 . The chapter contains a divine retrospect and an arraignment of the people for their national sins. The following... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Ezekiel 20:16

20:16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but profaned my {h} sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.(h) That is, my true religion, which I had commanded them, and gave themselves to serve me according to their own fantasies. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:1-49

CLOSE OF PART ONE Lack of space makes it necessary to crowd the remainder of Part 1 into a single lesson, but nothing vital to its general understanding will be lost, as the chapters are, to a certain extent, repetitions of the foregoing. LAMENTATIONS FOR THE PRINCES (Ezekiel 19:0 ) The theme of this chapter is found in the first and last verses. The “princes” are the kings of Judah Jehoahaz, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah, whose histories were made familiar in the closing chapters of 2 Kings ,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ezekiel 20:10-17

Here we have the history carried on to the wilderness dispensation. If, as some say, the direct road to Canaan might have been accomplished in a few days, the Lord's keeping them there forty years plainly proves, that it was for punishment and the trial of their faith. Here the Lord manifested that they were under his peculiar care, for he gave them Sabbaths as a sign between Him and them, and ordinances as a means of grace to keep up holy fellowship and communion all the way. But when the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:10-26

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 keeping of the sabbath day. Sabbaths are privileges; they are signs of our being his people. If we do the duty of the day, we shall find, to our comfort, it is the Lord that makes us holy, that is, truly happy, here; and prepares us to be happy, that is, perfectly holy, hereafter. The Israelites... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 20:10-26

In the Wilderness v. 10. Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, in agreement with His merciful intention, and brought them into the wilderness, delivering them from oppression and preparing them for entry into the Land of Promise. v. 11. And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, namely, in the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, which if a man do, he shall even live in them, for a perfect keeping of the Law would indeed merit eternal life. Cf Romans... read more