Ezekiel 20:10-26
gave <05414> [I gave.]
revealed ... regulations <03045 04941> [shewed them. Heb. made them to know. which.]
gave <05414> [I gave.]
reminder <0226> [to be.]
Lord <03068> [I am.]
rebelled <04784> [rebelled.]
rejected <03988> [and they.]
one <0120> [which.]
Sabbaths <07676> [and my.]
decided <0559> [I said.]
swore <05375> [I lifted.]
flowing <02100> [flowing.]
rejected <03988> [they.]
hearts <03820> [for their.]
They still had a hankering after the idolatries they had learned in Egypt, to which they added new idols, which they had seen in countries through which they had travelled, as those of the Midianites, Amorites, etc.
<05869> [mine.]
make <06213> [neither.]
said <0559> [I said.]
practices <02706> [the statutes.]
defile <02930> [defile.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
<03212> [walk.]
children <01121> [the children.]
one <0120> [if a man.]
pour out <08210> [I would.]
vent <03615> [accomplish.]
refrained from <07725> [I withdrew.]
acted <06213> [wrought.]
swore <05375> [lifted.]
scatter <06327> [that I.]
The predictions of the dispersion of Israel, delivered by Moses just before his death, are evidently here referred to: they received a partial accomplishment at the Babylonian captivity, but are more exactly fulfilling at this day.
observe <06213> [they had.]
eyes <05869> [their eyes.]
gave <05414> [I gave.]
The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
defiled <02930> [polluted.]
pass through <05674> [in that.]
first born <06363> [all that.]
know <03045> [to the end.]
