Ezekiel 20:26 NLT,NIV,ESV

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 20:1-49

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 years before the fall of Jerusalem, certain elders of Israel went down to Ezekiel to inquire of the Lord. The prophet was commissioned to declare to them that God would not be inquired of by them, and at the same time he was charged to make known to them the righteousness of the judgment falling... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:25-26

“Moreover I also gave them statutes which were not good, and judgments in which they would not live, and I polluted them in their own gifts in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.” Finally because of their failure to respond to Him truly He left them to follow their own ways. This is depicted as the positive act of Yahweh. In the end all was seen as Yahweh’s doing. He allowed false... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:1-32

Ezekiel 20. The Wicked Past and the Blessed Future. Ezekiel 20:1-Jonah : . 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 8:1): and as the doom draws nearer, the prophet grows fiercer. This lurid sketch of Israel’ s ancient sins, which partly recalls ch. 16, was occasioned by a visit of some elders ( cf. Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 14:1), who put to him a question which though not recorded, may perhaps be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 20:26

Polluted them; either I permitted them to pollute themselves, or discovered that they had polluted themselves, or treated them with loathing and abhorrence, as polluted persons. In their own gifts; either in their gifts which they pretended to bring to me, or rather in their sacrifices they offered to whom, or at least in what manner, they, not I, had chosen; or, which is most likely, gifts are here their first-born, which are more than other children accounted gifts. Through the fire: see... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 20:18-26

(Ezekiel 20:18-26.)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet describes the sins of the generation that grew up in the desert.Ezekiel 20:18. “But I said unto their children.” The second generation of the children of Israel in the wilderness. “To the ‘children’ belongs, among other things, the whole second lawgiving, with its impressive admonitions, as it was promulgated in Arboth-Moab, and is recorded in Deuteronomy” (Hengstenberg). “Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers.” “The ‘fathers’ in question... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:1-49

Chapter 20Now 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 evidently was their custom. We read earlier last week where the elders came to sit before Ezekiel to inquire of the Lord.And so the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel ( Ezekiel 20:2-3 ),Now the last time God said, you know, "Why should I be inquired of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 20:1-49

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 their calamities, and with their idols in their heart, as stated in Ezekiel 8:1. Ezekiel 20:12 ; Ezekiel 20:20 . I gave them my sabbaths. That holy day, though sanctified from the creation, had been almost lost in Egypt. It was restored by Moses as a sign of the covenant, in the encrease of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:26

Eze 20:26 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. Ver. 26. And I polluted them in their own gifts, ] i.e., I rejected both their persons and presents as unclean. So God would do our best performances (wherein there would not else be so much as truth and sincerity found), were they not wrought in us by the Holy Spirit, and perfumed... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 20:26

polluted: Ezekiel 20:31, Isaiah 63:17, Romans 11:7-2 Samuel : in that: Ezekiel 16:20, Ezekiel 16:21, Leviticus 18:21, 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 21:6, 2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Jeremiah 32:35 all that: Exodus 13:12, Luke 2:23 to the end: Ezekiel 6:7 Reciprocal: Exodus 10:2 - that ye Leviticus 20:2 - giveth 2 Samuel 12:11 - I will take 2 Kings 16:3 - made his son 2 Kings 23:10 - might make Psalms 106:37 - they sacrificed Isaiah 57:5 - slaying Jeremiah 19:5 - to burn Ezekiel 20:25 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 20:26

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.Polluted — I permitted them to pollute themselves.Might know — Be forced to own, that the Lord is a mighty king in punishing those that would not have him a gracious king in governing them. read more