
Text -- Ezekiel 20:27 (NET)




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JFB: Eze 20:27-29 - -- The next period, namely, that which followed the settlement in Canaan: the fathers of the generation existing in Ezekiel's time walked in the same ste...
The next period, namely, that which followed the settlement in Canaan: the fathers of the generation existing in Ezekiel's time walked in the same steps of apostasy as the generation in the wilderness.

JFB: Eze 20:27-29 - -- Not content with past rebellions, and not moved with gratitude for God's goodness, "yet in this," still further they rebelled.
Not content with past rebellions, and not moved with gratitude for God's goodness, "yet in this," still further they rebelled.

JFB: Eze 20:27-29 - -- "have insulted me" [CALVIN]. Even those who did not sacrifice to heathen gods have offered "their sacrifices" (Eze 20:28) in forbidden places.
"have insulted me" [CALVIN]. Even those who did not sacrifice to heathen gods have offered "their sacrifices" (Eze 20:28) in forbidden places.
Calvin -> Eze 20:27
Calvin: Eze 20:27 - -- 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...
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 serious to stir them up. “Walk you not in the decrees of your fathers: I am your God, observe you my law.” Since. therefore, God drew them under obedience to himself, what a mark of pride it was not to attend to that witness-bearing, but to pursue their own mad career? In truth, the crime was the more atrocious when at length they entered the land of Canaan, and had obtained so many victories, that they did not learn by experience how God declared his pourer for the very purpose of binding them closer to himself. For the numerous benefits which God had conferred upon them were but so many bonds by which they were bound more closely to him. This expostulation, then, is not in vain, when he reproaches them by saying, when they dishonored me, or rebelled against me. This was not a single crime, or simple perfidy, but a continual delight in wantonly insulting him; for
TSK -> Eze 20:27

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Barnes -> Eze 20:27-31
Barnes: Eze 20:27-31 - -- The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel. Eze 20:27 Yet in this - It was an aggravation of their guilt ...
The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel.
Yet in this - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for their glory.
Bamah - The Hebrew word for "high place."Another instance of the perversion of God’ s laws. When the Israelites first entered Canaan they were to set up the "tabernacle"on a "high place,"and upon this and upon no other they were to worship Yahweh (1Sa 9:12 ff; 1Ki 3:4). But the Israelites followed the custom of the country, and set up idol-worship on every high hill, and the word "high place"("Bannah,"plural "Bamoth") became a by-word (compare "Bamoth-Baal,"Jos 13:17). "Bamoth"occurs on the Moabitic stone, which records the erection of high places in honor of Chemosh. The name "Bamah"was thus a brand of the divine displeasure, and a memorial of the people’ s guilt.
The present state of the people. Those who came to inquire were the representatives of the whole people though belonging to the exiles.
Poole -> Eze 20:27
Poole: Eze 20:27 - -- Since all this evil and wicked carriage in Egypt and in the wilderness is too true, and cause of a Divine wrath against them, go on; tell what the d...
Since all this evil and wicked carriage in Egypt and in the wilderness is too true, and cause of a Divine wrath against them, go on; tell what the deportment of those was whom I brought into the land.
Unto the house of Israel to those elders that were now come to him, that they might tell others at Jerusalem.
Yet or further yet, beside all the rest, this is added by them.
Blasphemed me profanely and frowardly lessened my mercy, my law, my worship, cast a reproach upon it all, as less desirable than that of their own; theirs more august and stately, more taking and pleasing: or thus reproached my wisdom, as if it needed their additions to complete religion and Divine worship; or reproached my bounty, as if not I, but their idols, gave them what they enjoyed, as Hos 2:5,7,8 : the word speaks a reproach and blasphemy that comes from a heart full of enmity, as where it is used, Num 15:30 2Ki 19:22 Psa 44:16 Isa 37:23 43:28 ; they spitefully reproached.
Committed a trespass against me grievously sinned, as the phrase is rendered, Eze 14:13 : what this was in particular the next verse will account to us.
Gill -> Eze 20:27
Gill: Eze 20:27 - -- Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them,.... The elders of Israel, Eze 20:1; who came in the name of the whole body, ...
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them,.... The elders of Israel, Eze 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 ingratitude, that to all the rest they added this wickedness, to sacrifice to other gods on every high hill, and in all thick trees; which was a blaspheming the name of God, and casting reproach upon him:
in that they have committed a trespass against me; idolatry is meant, described in Eze 20:28; and which they committed, not through ignorance and weakness, but voluntarily, against light and knowledge; and obstinately, notwithstanding all the remonstrances made unto them, and cautions, exhortations, and reproofs given them.

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TSK Synopsis -> Eze 20:1-49
TSK Synopsis: Eze 20:1-49 - --1 God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel.4 He shews the story of their rebellions in Egypt,10 in the wilderness,27 and in the land.33 He ...
MHCC -> Eze 20:27-32
MHCC: Eze 20:27-32 - --The Jews persisted in rebellion after they settled in the land of Canaan. And these elders seem to have thought of uniting with the heathen. We make n...
Matthew Henry -> Eze 20:27-32
Matthew Henry: Eze 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...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Eze 20:27-31
Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 20:27-31 - --
Israel committed these sins in Canaan also, and to this day has not given them up; therefore God will not allow the idolatrous generation to inquire...
Constable: Eze 4:1--24:27 - --II. Oracles of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin chs. 4-24
This section of the book contains prophecies th...

Constable: Eze 20:1--23:49 - --D. Israel's defective leadership chs. 20-23
This section of the book is the final collection of propheci...

Constable: Eze 20:1-44 - --1. The history of Israel's rebellion and Yahweh's grace 20:1-44
The structure of this passage is...
