Ezekiel 20:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then I saidd unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. ”

Ezekiel 20:29 - Albert 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 t...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then I said to them, What [is] the high place to which ye go? And its name is called (o) Bamah to this day. (o) Which signifies a high place, declaring that they vaunted themselves of their idolatry...
Ezekiel 20:29 - 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 20:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

What is the high place... ? Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew oath habhamdh, for emphasis, to mark the contrast between this idolatrous high place and Zion the true high and h...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Although there is no ambiguity in the Prophet’s words, yet the sentence seems frigid, and interpreters, in my judgment, have not understood the Prophet’s meaning. It may seem spiritless, that G...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. What is the high place - מה הבמה mah habbamah, "what is the high place?" What is i...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Son of man, speak unto the house of Israel— This prophesy hitherto contains a declaration of the various punishments inflicted on the rebellious Israelites, from the time of Moses's mission to the...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me....
Ezekiel 20:29 - 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 20:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Is called Bamah. — Bamah itself means high place. Some have fancied that the word is derived from the two words “go” and “where,” and therefore that it contains a play upon the question in the fi...
Ezekiel 20:29 - 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 20:29 - 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 20:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Lord is still expostulating with His people for their transgressions; and the Lord shows the folly, as well as the sin, of Israel in going to those high places for sacrifice, for what could any o...
Ezekiel 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then I said unto them ,.... By his prophets that he sent unto them: what is the high place where, unto you go ? what is the name of it? what is the use of it? to what end do you go there? is there...
Ezekiel 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day. Ver. 29. And the name thereof is called Bamah, ] i.e., A high place; a name...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore, son of man, speak , &c. Here the prophet proceeds with the story of their rebellions for their further humiliation, and shows that they persisted in them after they were settled in th...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Rebellions of Israel. B. C. 592. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then; when they were intent upon this horrid course of sin, God pleaded by his messengers, and prophets, and law, and some faithful priests, What mean you, that ye go to the high place? should you...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place mean to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day. This sentence is a play on words. ‘Bamah' means ‘high place. But ‘ba' means ‘go' and ‘...
Ezekiel 20:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 20:27-29 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Israel continued to commit these sins in Canaan also, and still refuses to give them up. Ezekiel 20:27 . “Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me, in th...
Ezekiel 20:29 - 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 20:29 - 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 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence
Ezekiel 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 16:24 ; Ezekiel 16:25 ; Ezekiel 16:31
Ezekiel 20:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

What — What mean you that you go to the high place? What do you find so inviting there, that you will leave God's altar, where he requires your attendance, to frequent such places as he has forbidd...

Ezekiel 20:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 20:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 20:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 20:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 20:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 20:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 20:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 20:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 20:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes