Ezequiel 20:31

Filipino Cebuano Bible

31 Ug sa diha nga nanghatag kamo sa inyong mga gasa, sa diha nga gipaagi ninyo ang inyong mga anak diha sa kalayo, gihugawan ba ninyo ang inyong kaugalingon uban ang tanan ninyong mga dios-dios bisan hangtud ninyo ining adlawa? ug ako pakisayran pa ba diay ninyo, Oh balay sa Israel? Ingon nga ako buhi, nagaingon ang Ginoong Jehova, ako dili gayud pakisayran ninyo:

Bible Verse Review
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ye offer: Ezekiel 20:26, Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Psalms 106:37-39, Jeremiah 7:31, Jeremiah 19:5

and shall: Ezekiel 20:3, Ezekiel 14:3, Ezekiel 14:4, 1 Samuel 28:5, 1 Samuel 28:6, 2 Kings 3:13, 2 Kings 3:14, Job 27:8, Job 27:10, Psalms 66:18, Proverbs 1:27, Proverbs 1:28, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 14:12, Zechariah 7:13, Matthew 25:11, Matthew 25:12, James 4:1-3

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:22 - inquire Leviticus 18:21 - pass through Leviticus 20:2 - giveth Deuteronomy 12:31 - even their sons 2 Kings 16:3 - made his son 2 Kings 17:17 - they caused 2 Kings 23:10 - might make Psalms 106:39 - defiled Isaiah 57:5 - slaying Jeremiah 2:34 - Also Ezekiel 11:21 - I will Ezekiel 16:20 - and these Ezekiel 23:37 - have also Ezekiel 36:37 - I will yet Acts 15:20 - from pollutions

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For when ye offer your gifts,.... And sacrifices to idols. The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it,

the firstfruits of your gifts; it may design their firstborn; see

Ezekiel 20:26 as the following clause seems to explain it:

when ye make your sons to pass through the fire; or between two fires to Moloch, as their fathers had done before them;

ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day; by worshipping idols, or dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as often observed; they defiled themselves with those filthy things, which they continued to do to that very day, and so became more and more polluted; and were as their fathers had been, and therefore must expect to be used in like manner:

and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? can you think that I will suffer you to come and inquire of me or to make your requests to me? or can you hope to have an answer from me; at least a favourable one, such as you could wish for?

as I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be inquired of by you; so confirming again with an oath what he had before declared, Ezekiel 20:3, wherefore they might assure themselves that they would not be acceptable to him, neither their persons nor petitions, or be regarded by him.

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 20:31. Ye pollute yourselves — This shows the sense in which God says, Ezekiel 20:26, "I polluted them in their own gifts." They chose to pollute themselves, and I permitted them to do so. See on Ezekiel 20:25-26.