Introduction
A deputation of the elders of Israel, as usual, in their distress, came to request Ezekiel to ask counsel of God, Ezekiel 20:1 . In reply to this, God commands the prophet to put them in mind of their rebellion and idolatry: In Egypt, Ezekiel 20:2-9 , in the wilderness, vv. 10-27, and in Canaan, Ezekiel 20:28-32 . Notwithstanding which the Lord most graciously promises to restore them to their own land, after they should be purged from their dross, Ezekiel 20:33-44 . The five last verses of this chapter ought to begin the next, as they are connected with the subject of that chapter, being a prophecy against Jerusalem, which lay to the south of Chaldea, where the prophet then was, and which here and elsewhere is represented under the emblem of a forest doomed to be destroyed by fire, Ezekiel 20:45-49 .
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