Ezekiel 20:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the. that.

bring them forth, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 8:8; Deuteronomy 8:9). App-92.

espied. looked, or spied out,

flowing with milk and honey. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:8; Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3.Leviticus 20:24 Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:8; Numbers 16:13; Numbers 16:14.Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 11:26; Deuteronomy 11:9; Deuteronomy 11:15; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 31:20). Beside these passages it is found only in Ezekiel 20:6; Ezekiel 20:15.Joshua 5:4.Jeremiah 11:5; Jeremiah 32:22.

the glory. the gazelle. Put by Figure of speech metonymy (of Subject), App-6,

for "beauty ". Compare Ezekiel 20:15.Psalms 48:2.

Ezekiel 20:6

6 In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: