Ezekiel 20:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; ”

• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Wherefore I gave (l) them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments by which they should not live; (l) Because they would not obey my laws, I gave them up to themselves that they should obey...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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 (...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I gave them also statutes , its. In Hebrew idiom. I suffered others to give them statutes, it,: i.e. in their captivity. Active verbs in Hebrew were used to express not only the doing of the thing,...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here God announces that he had taken vengeance upon people so hard and obstinate, by permitting them to endure another yoke, since they would not be ruled by the doctrine of the law; for we saw...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; I gave them also statutes that were not good - What a foolish noise has been made about this vers...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I gave them also statues that were not good— This passage has given great handle to infidels and free-thinkers, though certainly it will admit of more interpretations than one, clear and consistent...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; Wherefore I gave them also statutes ... not good - since they would not follow my statutes,...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Statutes that were not good. — In this verse the general statement is made of which a particular instance is given in the next. The “statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should n...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Thus slighted and despised by the fathers, the Lord looked to their children, that the rising generation might not be rebellious as their fathers had been. But the sin of rebellion, like a chain of m...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good ,.... Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of it; for that is holy, just, and good, though the killing letter and ministra...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; Ver. 25. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good. ] i.e., I gave them up to t...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore I gave them statutes that were not good , &c. This some understand of the ceremonial law, as if it were given purely to be a check and restraint to that perverse people, consisting of...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Privileges and Sins of Israel. B. C. 592.       10 Wherefore I caused them to go forth o...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Because they did by such perverse obstinacy reject the statutes I did in mercy give them; my good laws and judgments, saith God, they despised; for this cause God proceeds to punish them in a dreadfu...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Moreover I also gave them statutes which were not good, and judgments in which they would not live, and I polluted them in their own gifts in that they caused to pass through the fire all who opened...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ( Ezekiel 20:18-26 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet describes the sins of the generation that grew up in the desert. Ezekiel 20:18 . “But I said unto their children.” The second generation of th...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ezekiel 20:25 The prophet Ezekiel in the text announces a very solemn judgment of God upon those who refuse truth. The chiefs of the nation are before the prophet, requiring to know how God might...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live. The judgment of invincible ignorance These words have often formed the ground of infidel cavils, and th...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  In the Wilderness

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 ; Deuteronomy 28:36 ; Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Deuteronomy 4:28 ; Ezekiel 14:9-11 ; Ezekiel 20:26 ; Ezekiel 20:39 ; Isaiah 66:4 ; Psalms 81:12 ; Romans 1:21-28 ; Romans 1:...

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• Ezekiel 20:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Wherefore — Because they rejected my good laws and judgments. I gave them — Not by enjoining, but by permitting them to make such for themselves. Not good — That were pernicious to the users.

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