Ezekiel 20:36

Amplified Bible

"As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment and contend with you," says the Lord GOD.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Hebrew Names Version
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Mitzrayim, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord GOD.

King James Version
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God .

English Standard Version
As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord God .

New American Standard Bible
"Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD.

New Century Version
I will judge you the same way I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, says the Lord God .

World English Bible
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the lande of Egypt, so will I pleade with you, saith the Lord God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares the Lord GOD.

Legacy Standard Bible
As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you," declares Lord Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

Contemporary English Version
and punish you, just as I punished your ancestors in the desert near Egypt.

Complete Jewish Bible
Just as I judged your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you,' says Adonai Elohim .

Darby Translation
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Easy-to-Read Version
I will judge you as I judged your ancestors in the desert near Egypt." This is what the Lord God said.

George Lamsa Translation
Just as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, says the LORD God.

Good News Translation
I will now condemn you just as I condemned your ancestors in the Sinai Desert," says the Sovereign Lord .

Lexham English Bible
Just as I executed justice on your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!" declares the Lord Yahweh.

Literal Translation
Just as I was judging your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will be judging you, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Like as I punished yor forefathers in the wildernesse, so wil I punish you also, saieth the LORDE God.

American Standard Version
Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English
As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

King James Version (1611)
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernes of the land of Egypt, so wil I plead with you, saith the Lord God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wildernesse of Egypt: so wyll I pleade with you also, saith the Lorde God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I judge you, saith the Lord.

English Revised Version
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
As Y stryuede in doom ayens youre fadris in the desert of the lond of Egipt, so Y schal deme you, seith the Lord;

Update Bible Version
Like I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Webster's Bible Translation
As I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

New English Translation
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the sovereign Lord .

New King James Version
Just as I pleaded My case with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will plead My case with you," says the Lord GOD.

New Living Translation
I will judge you there just as I did your ancestors in the wilderness after bringing them out of Egypt, says the Sovereign Lord .

New Life Bible
As I punished your fathers in the desert of Egypt, so I will punish you," says the Lord God.

New Revised Standard
As I entered into judgment with your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord God .

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just as I contended with yore fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, So will I contend with you, Declareth My Lord Yahweh;

Douay-Rheims Bible
As I pleaded against your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt; even so will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

Revised Standard Version
As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord GOD.

Young's Literal Translation
As I was judged with your fathers, In the wilderness of the land of Egypt, So I am judged with you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

THE MESSAGE
"‘As I faced your parents with judgment in the desert of Egypt, so I'll face you with judgment. I'll scrutinize and search every person as you arrive, and I'll bring you under the bond of the covenant. I'll cull out the rebels and traitors. I'll lead them out of their exile, but I won't bring them back to Israel. "‘Then you'll realize that I am God .

Contextual Overview

³³"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "most certainly with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out, I shall be King over you. ³⁴"I will bring you out from the peoples and will gather you from the countries in which you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out; ³⁵and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you and contend with you face to face. ³⁶"As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment and contend with you," says the Lord GOD. ³⁷"I will make you pass under the rod [as the shepherd does with his sheep when he counts them, and I will count you as Mine and constrain you] and bring you into the bond of the covenant [to which you are permanently bound]. ³⁸"And I will separate from you the rebels and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the land where they temporarily live, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Thus you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD. ³⁹"As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD, "Go, let everyone serve his idols; but later you shall most certainly listen to Me, and you shall no longer profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols. ⁴⁰"For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel (Zion)," says the Lord GOD, "there the whole house of Israel, all of them in the land, shall serve Me. There I will [graciously] accept them, and there I will seek (require) your offerings and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy and sacred things. ⁴¹"I will accept you [graciously] as a pleasant and soothing aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands in which you have been scattered; and I will prove Myself holy and manifest My holiness among you in the sight of the nations. ⁴²"And you will know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land which I swore to give to your fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Exodus 32:7-35, Numbers 11:1-35, Numbers 14:1-45, Numbers 16:1-50, 25:1-18; Psalms 106:15-48, 1 Corinthians 10:5-10

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:5 - this evil Jeremiah 2:9 - I will Jeremiah 25:31 - plead Ezekiel 17:20 - plead Ezekiel 20:35 - I will Hosea 2:3 - as Hosea 2:14 - and bring Amos 3:2 - therefore Micah 6:2 - a controversy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt,.... Which was opposite the land of Egypt, near unto it, on the borders of it; and into which the people immediately went, when they came out of Egypt, and passed the Red sea; and the Arabic version is,

"when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.''

This refers to the controversy the Lord had with the Israelites for murmuring upon the report of the spies; and the sentence he passed upon them, that they should not enter into the land of Canaan, but their carcasses should fall in the wilderness, Numbers 14:29:

so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God; take vengeance on them, as the Targum; who disbelieve the Messiah, reject him, and will not have him to reign over them; these are now punished, by a dispersion of them in the wilderness of the nations, where they die and perish, and see not their own land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God’s future dealings with His people:

(1) in judgment Ezekiel 20:32-38;

(2) in mercy Ezekiel 20:39-44.

Ezekiel 20:32

The inquirers had thought that if Jerusalem were taken, and the whole people became sojourners in a foreign land, they would cease to be a separate nation. In their love for idolatry some may have even desired this. But more probably they thought that this very consequence precluded the possibility of such a catastrophe. God answers that He will not allow them to become as the pagan, but this will only subject them to severer trial and stricter rule.

Ezekiel 20:33

The expressions “a mighty hand, stretched out arm” carry back the thoughts to Egyptian bondage Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 5:15; but then it was for deliverance, now for judgment “with fury poured out.”

Ezekiel 20:35

The wilderness of the people - A time of probation will follow, as before in the wilderness of Sin, so in the “wilderness of the nations” among whom they will sojourn (not the Babylonians) “after” that captivity. This period of their probation is not over. The dispersion of the Jews did not cease with the return under Zerubbabel; but in our Saviour’s time they were living as a distinct people in all the principal places in the civilized world; and so they live now. God is yet pleading with them “face to face,” calling them personally to embrace those offers which as a nation they disregarded.

Ezekiel 20:37

To pass under the rod - i. e., to be gathered into the flock Micah 7:14.

The bond - The shepherd collects the flock, and separates the sheep from the goats, which are rejected. Compare Romans 11:7-11.

Ezekiel 20:39

Strong irony. Some prefer another rendering: “Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, yet hereafter ye shall surely hearken unto me, and shall no more pollute My Holy Name etc.” In this way, this verse is introductory to what follows.

Ezekiel 20:40

This points to the consummation indicated by the vision of the temple.

In the mountain of the height - Or, Upon a very high mountain Ezekiel 40:2. Compare Isaiah 2:2-3.

The house of Israel, all of them - All the separation between Israel and Judah shall cease. This points to times yet future, when in Messiah’s kingdom Jews and Gentiles alike shall be gathered into one kingdom - the kingdom of Christ. Jerusalem is the Church of Christ Galatians 4:26, into which the children of Israel shall at last be gathered, and so the prophecy shall be fulfilled Revelation 21:2.