Ézéchiel 20:25-31 BDS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:10-26

The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here continued: and the instances of that struggle in these verses have reference to what passed between God and them in the wilderness, in which God honoured himself and they shamed themselves. The story of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the New Testament (1 Cor. 10:1-33; Heb. 3:1-19), as well as... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:27-32

Here the prophet goes on with the story of their rebellions, for their further humiliation, and shows, I. That they had persisted in them after they were settled in the land of Canaan. Though God had so many times testified his displeasure against their wicked courses, ?yet in this (that is, in the very same thing) your fathers have blasphemed me, continued to affront me, that they also have trespassed a trespass against me,? Ezek. 20:27. Note, It is a great aggravation of sin when men will... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:25

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good ,.... Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of it; for that is holy, just, and good, though the killing letter and ministration of condemnation and death to the transgressors of it; indeed those laws were both good and bad to different persons, as Abendana observes; good to those that observed them, but not good to those that transgressed them, the issue of which was death: rather these were the statutes and rites of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:26

And one polluted them in their own gifts ,.... Suffered them to defile themselves; or declared them to be, and treated them as polluted persons, in the gifts and sacrifices which they offered to idols, particularly their firstborn: as the next clause explains it: in that they caused to pass though the fire all that openeth the womb ; this very likely they did, when they sacrificed to Baalpeor, the same with Molech, Numbers 25:3 ; that I might make them desolate ; their families,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:27

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them ,.... The elders of Israel, Ezekiel 20:1 ; who came in the name of the whole body, and represented them, and by whom the following message is sent unto them; or the prophet by them might speak unto them, as he is ordered: thus saith the Lord God, yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me ; besides what they did in Egypt, and in the wilderness, when they were come into the land of Canaan, such was their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land ,.... Brought them out of Egypt through the wilderness into the land of Canaan, through so many difficulties, by such displays of power, goodness, and truth: for the which I lifted up mine band to give it to them ; which he swore he would give unto them, and which he did, and so fulfilled his word and oath; and which was an instance of his bounty and goodness; and not owing to any merits of theirs; which he did, and so fulfilled his word and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:29

Then I said unto them ,.... By his prophets that he sent unto them: what is the high place where, unto you go ? what is the name of it? what is the use of it? to what end do you go there? is there not an altar built by my order and command to sacrifice upon is this high place better than that? does it answer a better end and purpose? and the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day ; or a high place. The Septuagint also leaves the word untranslated, and calls it Abama; and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:30

Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God ,.... To the elders, as before: are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers ? they were: and commit ye whoredoms after their abominations ? spiritual adultery; that is, idolatry, in the same abominable manner? they did, as appears by what follows: read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:31

For when ye offer your gifts ,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, the firstfruits of your gifts ; it may design their firstborn; see Ezekiel 20:26 as the following clause seems to explain it: when ye make your sons to pass through the fire ; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them; ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day ; by worshipping idols, or dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:25

I gave them also statutes that were not good - What a foolish noise has been made about this verse by critics, believers and infidels! How is it that God can be said "to give a people statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they could not live?" I answer, in their sense of the words, God never gave any such, at any time, to any people. Let any man produce an example of this kind if he can; or show even the fragment of such a law, sanctioned by the Most High! The simple meaning of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:10-26

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 20:27-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 20:31

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:25

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