Ezequiel 20:18

Filipino Cebuano Bible

18 Ug ako miingon sa ilang mga anak didto sa kamingawan: Ayaw kamo paglakaw sa kabalaoran sa inyong mga amahan, ni magtuman kamo sa ilang mga tulomanon, ni maghugaw kamo sa inyong kaugalingon sa ilang mga dios-dios.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I said: Numbers 14:32, Numbers 14:33, Numbers 32:13-15, Deuteronomy 4:3-6, Psalms 78:6-8

the statutes: Zechariah 1:2-4, Luke 11:47, Luke 11:48, Acts 7:51, 1 Peter 1:18

defile: Ezekiel 20:7, Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 3:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:14 - put 1 Kings 15:12 - all the idols 2 Chronicles 33:22 - as did Manasseh Psalms 1:1 - walketh Psalms 78:8 - as their Psalms 106:39 - defiled Jeremiah 11:8 - obeyed Jeremiah 11:10 - iniquities Jeremiah 32:23 - but Ezekiel 2:3 - rebelled Ezekiel 18:14 - that seeth Ezekiel 18:17 - he shall not Ezekiel 18:19 - When Amos 2:4 - after Mark 12:1 - and set Acts 7:53 - and have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I said unto their children in the wilderness,.... Or, "then I said" k; his judgments and statutes being neglected and despised by them, and good instructions and kind providences being of no use unto them, the Lord turns to their posterity while yet in the wilderness: what follows seems to refer to those directions, instructions, and exhortations given in the book of Deuteronomy by Moses, in the plains of Moab, a little before the children of Israel went over Jordan into the land of Canaan:

walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments; they were not only not to imitate their parents in their open sins and transgressions of God's law; but they were not to follow them in the observance of such rules of worship, which were of their own devising, and they had formed into a law: this makes greatly against such who think it a very heinous sin to relinquish the religion of their ancestors, or that in which they were brought up; but if this does not appear to be according to the word of God, the statutes and judgments of our fathers should stand for nothing, yea, should be rejected:

nor defile yourselves with their idols; idolatry, as it is abominable to God, is defiling to men, and renders them loathsome to him; and it being what their fathers practised will not excuse them; for, as it was defiling to their fathers, it is no less so to their children.

k ואמר "postea dixi", Piscator.

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 20:18. But I said unto their children — These I chose in their fathers' stead; and to them I purposed to give the inheritance which their fathers by disobedience lost.