Ezekiel 20:25-27 NIV

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:26

I polluted them in their own gifts - I permitted them to pollute themselves by the offerings which they made to their idols. Causing their children to pass through the fire was one of those pollutions; but, did God ever give them a statute or judgment of this kind? No. He ever inveighs against such things, and they incur his heaviest displeasure and curse. See on Ezekiel 20:31 ; (note). read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:25

Verse 25 Here God announces that he had taken vengeance upon people so hard and obstinate, by permitting them to endure another yoke, since they would not be ruled by the doctrine of the law; for we saw that, when God imposed the law upon the Israelites, they would have been extremely happy, had they only considered how honorable it was to be in covenant with God, who deigned to bind them to himself in mutual fidelity. This was a remarkable honor and privilege, since God not only showed them... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:26

Verse 26 There is no doubt that God here continues the same doctrine’ hence we gather that injurious laws were given to the people when they adopted various errors and worshipped idols of their own fabrication instead of God: hence it is added, I polluted them in their gifts. This, then, was added by the Prophet, lest the Jews should object that they had not altogether rejected the worship of God; for they mingled the ceremonies of the laws with the fictions of the Gentiles, as we saw before,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:27

Verse 27 He now descends to the wickedness of the people, by which God was provoked after they had taken possession of the land of Canaan, since they despised God after being so carefully warned. He complains, therefore, that this was very disgraceful, since, after he had put them in possession of the land of promise, they had never desisted from purposely insulting him. This disgrace was intolerable, since he had profited nothing by them in the wilderness: this witnessing was sufficiently... 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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 20:27

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