Ezekiel 20:31 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you. ”

Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As]...
Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

your sons. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "your sons and your daughters".
Ezekiel 20:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He follows up the same sentiment, that it was a monstrous sin that they so perniciously remained fixed in the perverse imitation of their fathers: for they had been drawn off from their lusts b...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As...
Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel?...
Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will not be enquired of by you. — This takes up the refrain of Ezekiel 20:3 , and with the following verse fitly closes this portion of the prophecy which was introduced by the coming of the eld...
Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - 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 20:31 - 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 20:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Ezekiel 20:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? [As...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Say unto the house of Israel To the elders now sitting before thee, and through them to the rest of their brethren; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers After all that God hath said t...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Rebellions of Israel. B. C. 592. 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your gifts: see Ezekiel 20:26 . All your idols; it seems they took a compendious way to increase sin and wrath; they worshipped many idols at once; and this they did still to Ezekiel's time, t...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Why God Will Still Not Deal With Them And What He Intended To Do About It. “For these reasons say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh. Do you pollute yourselves in the same way as y...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 20:30-38 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet addresses the men of his day, showing that they are equally guilty with their fathers. They are to receive just retribution, and to be purified am...
Ezekiel 20:31 - 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 20:31 - 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 20:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Israel's Behavior In Canaan And The Lord's Sentence
Ezekiel 20:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 28:5 ; 1 Samuel 28:6 ; 2 Kings 3:13 ; 2 Kings 3:14 ; Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ; Ezekiel 14:3 ; Ezekiel 14:4 ; Ezekiel 20:26 ; Ezekiel 20:3 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; James 4:1-3 ; Jeremiah 14:1...
Ezekiel 20:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shall I be enquired of — Are you fit to ask counsel of me, whom you have so obstinately forsaken and reproached?

Ezekiel 20:31 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 20:31 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 20:31 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 20:31 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 20:31 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:31 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 20:31 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:31 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 20:31 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:31 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 20:31 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 20:31 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 20:31 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes