Ezequiel 20:12

Filipino Cebuano Bible

12 Labut pa usab gihatag ko kanila ang akong mga adlawng igpapahulay, aron mahimong usa ka timaan sa taliwala kanako ug kanila, aron sila makaila nga ako mao si Jehova nga ngabalaan kanila.

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I gave: Genesis 2:3, Exodus 16:29, Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 35:2, Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:24, Leviticus 23:32, Leviticus 23:39, Leviticus 25:4, Deuteronomy 5:12-15, Nehemiah 9:14, Mark 2:27, Mark 2:28, Colossians 2:16

to be: Ezekiel 20:20, Exodus 31:13-17

I am: Ezekiel 37:28, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Leviticus 20:8, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:15, Leviticus 21:23, John 17:17-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, Jude 1:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 31:14 - keep Exodus 31:17 - a sign Leviticus 19:3 - keep Numbers 8:17 - I sanctified Numbers 28:9 - General Deuteronomy 5:13 - General Joshua 4:6 - a sign Psalms 74:9 - We see Isaiah 56:2 - keepeth the Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Ezekiel 22:26 - hid their Matthew 19:17 - but Mark 12:1 - and set Luke 13:14 - There Romans 3:2 - because Romans 4:11 - the sign Romans 9:4 - the giving

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Moreover, also, I gave them my sabbaths,.... The Targum is,

"the days of the sabbaths;''

or sabbath days, the seventh day sabbaths, which recurring throughout the year are many; but, besides these, there were the year of remission, for the seventh year sabbath; and the jubilee year, the great sabbath of all, once in fifty years; yea, Kimchi thinks the feasts, such as the passover, c. are included: now these are distinguished from the statutes and judgments, or the precepts of the law, which were of a moral nature these being ritual and ceremonial, and were peculiar to the Jews, and continued but for a while; however, they were gifts, and valuable ones, of considerable use and significance:

to be a sign between me and them; of his being their God, and they being his people; of his favour and good will to them, and of the, obligations they were under to him; of his having separated and distinguished them from all other nations of the world; these sabbaths being only given to them as a memorial of their deliverance out of Egypt, and as a pledge of their entering into the land of rest; and of the future rest to be enjoyed by Christ, and in heaven, to all eternity; for these were shadows of things to come, Colossians 2:16;

that they might know that I [am] the Lord that sanctify them; separate them from other nations, and, by such means and opportunities, begin and carry on the work of sanctification in them; for the sabbaths, and the services of them, were useful to such purposes; as Lord's days, and the work of them, are now.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children.

Ezekiel 20:11

The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and repeated by Moses before his death (Exodus 20:1 ff; Deuteronomy 4:8).

In them - Or, through them: and in Ezekiel 20:13.

Ezekiel 20:12

See Exodus 31:13. The Sabbath was a sign of a special people, commemorative of the work of creation, and hallowed to the honor of Yahweh, the covenant-God. As man honored God by keeping the Sabbath holy, so by the Sabbath, God “sanctified” Israel and marked them as a holy people. Therefore to profane the Sabbath was to abjure their Divine Governor.

Ezekiel 20:13

My sabbaths they greatly polluted - Not by actual non-observance of the sabbatical rest in the wilderness, but in failing to make the day holy in deed as well as in name by earnest worship and true heart service.

Ezekiel 20:18

The book of Deuteronomy contains the address to “the children” of those who perished in the wilderness. The whole history of Israel was a repetition of this course. The covenant was made with one generation, broken by them, and then renewed to the next.

Ezekiel 20:25

The “judgments whereby they should not live” are those spoken of in Ezekiel 20:18, and are contrasted with the judgments in Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, laws other than divine, to which God gives up those whom He afflicts with judicial blindness, because they have willfully closed their eyes, Psalms 81:12; Romans 1:24.

Ezekiel 20:26

To pass through - The word also means to “set apart,” as the firstborn to the Lord Exodus 13:12. They were bidden to “set apart” their firstborn males to the Lord. They “caused them to pass through the fire” to Moloch. An instance of their perversion of God’s laws.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 20:12. I gave them my Sabbaths — The religious observance of the Sabbath was the first statute or command of God to men. This institution was a sign between God and them, to keep them in remembrance of the creation of the world, of the rest that he designed them in Canaan, and of the eternal inheritance among the saints in light. Of these things the Sabbath was a type and pledge.