Ezequiel 20:28

Filipino Cebuano Bible

28 Kay sa diha nga gipasulod ko sila ngadto sa yuta, nga akong gipanumpaan sa paghatag kanila, unya sila nakakita sa tagsatagsa ka hataas nga bungtod, ug sa tanang mga kahoy nga madasok ug sila nanagdulot didto sa ilang mga halad, ug didto gitanyag nila sa pagkamahagiton ang ilang halad; didto usab gibuhat nila ang ilang maamyon nga kahumot, ug didto gibubo ang ilang mga halad-nga-ilimnon.par

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when I: Joshua 23:3, Joshua 23:4, Joshua 23:14, Nehemiah 9:22-26, Psalms 78:55-58

the which: Ezekiel 20:6, Ezekiel 20:15, Genesis 15:18-21, Genesis 26:3, Genesis 26:4, Psalms 105:8-11

they saw: Ezekiel 6:13, Psalms 78:58, Isaiah 57:5-7, Jeremiah 2:7, Jeremiah 3:6

their sweet: Ezekiel 16:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:8 - swear Exodus 10:2 - that ye Exodus 29:40 - a drink Leviticus 1:9 - a sweet Leviticus 17:5 - in the open Deuteronomy 12:2 - possess Deuteronomy 12:30 - that thou 1 Kings 11:7 - build an high 1 Kings 14:23 - built 2 Kings 16:4 - on the hills 2 Kings 18:4 - removed 2 Chronicles 21:11 - Moreover Psalms 78:57 - But Psalms 106:36 - And Isaiah 57:7 - General Isaiah 65:3 - that sacrificeth Isaiah 65:7 - blasphemed Jeremiah 2:20 - when upon Jeremiah 3:2 - unto Jeremiah 3:23 - in vain Jeremiah 7:18 - to pour Jeremiah 13:27 - abominations Jeremiah 17:2 - their altars Jeremiah 22:21 - This Jeremiah 32:30 - children Ezekiel 6:9 - their eyes Ezekiel 16:24 - thou hast Ezekiel 18:6 - not Ezekiel 20:41 - with your Ezekiel 44:12 - therefore Ezekiel 47:14 - lifted up mine hand Hosea 4:13 - sacrifice Malachi 3:7 - from the Revelation 10:5 - lifted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[For] when I had brought them into the land,.... Brought them out of Egypt through the wilderness into the land of Canaan, through so many difficulties, by such displays of power, goodness, and truth:

[for] the which I lifted up mine band to give it to them; which he swore he would give unto them, and which he did, and so fulfilled his word and oath; and which was an instance of his bounty and goodness; and not owing to any merits of theirs; which he did, and so fulfilled his word and oath; and which was an instance of his bounty and goodness, and not owing to any merits of theirs:

then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees; as soon as they had got into the land, and took a view of it, they at once fixed their eyes upon the high hills and groves, as proper places to set up their idols on, and perform idolatrous worship in; in the one place more openly, and in the other more secretly, as they might judge proper and necessary; in which they imitated the Heathens, who had their temples, idols, altars, and sacrifices, amidst groves and thick trees. So Herodotus n relates of the temple of Diana at Bubastis in Egypt, that at the entrance of it there were rivulets from the Nile, which flowed about it here and there, shaded with trees; and within were a vast grove of the largest trees, planted about the temple; and which he afterwards calls trees reaching to heaven:

and they offered there their sacrifices; either to the God of Israel, as some of them sometimes did, and which was sinful; for though they might offer sacrifices, as were commanded, to a right object, yet not in the proper place: or rather to their idols; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions,

to their own gods; which they had made to themselves, and had chose and approved of:

and there they presented the provocation of their offering; or their offering which provoked the wrath of God against them; being such as either he had not appointed, or was offered in a wrong place, or the wrong object; than which nothing could be more provoking to him; it was giving his glory to another, and his praise to graven images:

there also they made their sweet saviour; incense to their deities. The Targum is the worship of their sacrifices:

and poured out there their drink offerings; libations of wine: all kind of sacrifices were offered up here by them; which shows to what lengths in idolatry they ran, and how dreadfully guilty they were.

n Euterpe: sive l. 2. c. 138.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The probation in the land of Canaan from their entry to the day of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel 20:27

Yet in this - It was an aggravation of their guilt that they defiled with idolatry the land given them for their glory.

Ezekiel 20:29

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 (1 Samuel 9:12 ff; 1 Kings 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,” Joshua 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.

Ezekiel 20:30, Ezekiel 20:31

The present state of the people. Those who came to inquire were the representatives of the whole people though belonging to the exiles.