Ezequiel 20:7

Filipino Cebuano Bible

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Bible Verse Review
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Cast: Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 18:15, Ezekiel 18:31, Isaiah 2:20, Isaiah 2:21, Isaiah 31:7

the abominations: Ezekiel 6:9, Ezekiel 14:6, 2 Chronicles 15:8

defile: Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8, Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 18:3, Deuteronomy 29:16-18, Joshua 24:14

I am: Ezekiel 20:19, Exodus 16:12, Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 20:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean Exodus 6:6 - I am the Lord Leviticus 18:2 - General Joshua 5:9 - I rolled away Nehemiah 9:18 - General Psalms 50:7 - I am Jeremiah 4:1 - put away Ezekiel 16:26 - with the Ezekiel 20:18 - defile Ezekiel 23:7 - with all their Ezekiel 23:19 - in calling

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I said unto them,.... Having promised and swore to do such great and good things for them; which must lay them under an obligation to regard what he should command them: promises and blessings of goodness are great incentives to duty, and lay under great obligation to it:

cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes; which should be so, meaning idols; but which his eyes were taken with, and were lifted up unto, as his gods; though they ought to have been rejected with the utmost abhorrence, as abominable:

and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; their "dunghill gods", as the word f signifies; which to worship, as it was an abomination to God, was defiling to themselves; yet these they were fond of, and prone to worship them; their eyes and their hearts were after them; and they needed such cautions and instructions as these, backed with the following strong reason against such idolatry:

I [am] the Lord your God; their Creator and Benefactor, their covenant God; the only Lord God, and whom only they ought to serve and worship; to whom they were under ten thousand obligations; and who was infinitely above all the idols of Egypt.

f בגלולי "stercoreis diis", Junius Tremellius, Polanus "stercoribus", Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The children of Israel in Egypt were warned to abstain from the idolatry of the pagan. This purpose they lost sight of, yet God spared them and brought them into another state of probation.

Ezekiel 20:5

Lifted up mine hand - i. e., sware, because the hand was lifted up in adjuration.

Ezekiel 20:8

Idols of Egypt - These incidental notices show the children of Israel in Egypt to have been addicted to idolatry. Compare Joshua 24:14.

Ezekiel 20:9

I wrought for my name’s sake - Lest it should appear to the Egyptians that Yahweh was a God who would, but could not, save.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 20:7. Cast ye away - the abominations — Put away all your idols; those incentives to idolatry that ye have looked on with delight.