Ezekiel 20:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. ”

Ezekiel 20:12 - Albert 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 Moun...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20. The Wicked Past and the Blessed Future. Ezekiel 20:1-32 . A Sketch of Israel's Early Idolatries. It is now 590 B.C. Almost a year has elapsed since the last incident that was dated (...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I gave them, &c. Ref, to Pentateuch ( Exodus 20:8 ; Exodus 31:13 ). that they might know. Compare note on Ezekiel 6:10 .
Ezekiel 20:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Besides the law God here commends his Sabbaths, which we know to be only a part of His law: nay, whoever compares the commandments one by one, will at first sight perceive more weight in others...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. I gave them my Sabbaths - The religious observance of the Sabbat...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I gave them my statutes— That is, says Bishop Warburton, he gave them the moral law of the decalogue, in which there was one positive institution, and no more; but this one absolutely necessary to...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

History Repeating itself Some four years before the fall of Jerusalem the elders of Tel-abib again came to consult Ezekiel, who declared that God had no answer to give them. The reason was that th...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I gave them my sabbaths. — “Not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers” ( John 7:22 ). The Sabbath, like circumcision, was an institution far older than the period here spoken of, but was now c...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL Ezekiel 20:1-49 BY far the hardest trial of Ezekiel's faith must have been the conduct of his fellow-exiles. It was amongst them that he looked for the great s...
Ezekiel 20:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the seventh year of the reign of Jehoiachin, that is four...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here we have the history carried on to the wilderness dispensation. If, as some say, the direct road to Canaan might have been accomplished in a few days, the Lord's keeping them there forty years pl...
Ezekiel 20:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

MY SABBATHS ‘I gave them My sabbaths.’ Ezekiel 20:12 ‘I gave them My sabbaths,’ says God. It is a gift worthy of such a transcendent Giver. I. For the Sabbath brings me relief and quietude...
Ezekiel 20:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 thes...
Ezekiel 20:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that sanctify them. Ver. 12. Moreover also, I gave them my Sabbaths. ] A sweet me...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moreover, I gave them my sabbaths Including the weekly sabbaths, the sabbatical years, and all the solemn days of divine worship, in which no servile work was to be done: to be a sign between me a...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Privileges and Sins of Israel. B. C. 592. 10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth o...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I gave; both commanded, and also sanctified, those portions of time to be holy rests. My sabbaths; either the weekly sabbath, which, recurring every seventh day, soon multiplied into many, and wa...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.” The importance of the sabbath as a sign that Israel were God's peo...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 20:10-17 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The sin of the first generation of Israelites in the wilderness: yet the Lord did not make an end of them. Ezekiel 20:11 . “And I gave them My statutes, and...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:1 . The elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me. They still respected the divine καρισματα, or holy anointing of the Spirit; but they sought it for a reverse of...
Ezekiel 20:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

I gave them My Sabbaths. The practical duties of the Christian Sabbath Let two remarks be premised. We enforce not the duties of the Jewish but of the Christian Sabbath. Everything in the Chris...
Ezekiel 20:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 20:1 A new date is given, and includes what follows to Ezekiel 23:49 . The last note of time was in Ezekiel 8:1 , and eleven months and five days had passed, during whi...
Ezekiel 20:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the Wilderness
Ezekiel 20:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ; Colossians 2:16 ; Deuteronomy 5:12-15 ; Exodus 16:29 ; Exodus 19:5 ; Exodus 19:6 ; Exodus 20:8-11 ; Exodus 31:13-17 ; Exodus 35:2 ; Ezekiel 20:20 ; Ezekiel 37:28 ;...
Ezekiel 20:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A sign — Of their being peculiarly my people.

Ezekiel 20:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 20:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 20:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 20:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 20:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 20:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes