Ezekiel 20:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Yet also; moreover also, as the same particles are rendered, Ezekiel 20:12. I lifted up my hand unto them; see Ezekiel 20:5; sware in his wrath against them, Psalms 95:11. In the wilderness of Paran, where the Israelites pitched and abode in several parts of it many days, during which time they lust for flesh, Numbers 11:4,5, and murmur against the Lord, Moses, and the two faithful spies, who had searched out the land: here it was they would make them a captain and return to Egypt, Numbers 14:4. That I would not bring them, & c: so it is recorded, Numbers 14:11,12,22,23,28-32; so all the murmuring, disobedient, unbelieving generation was excluded, and their children were brought in; which, well noted, reconcileth the seeming contrariety between the oaths of God. Them; those rebellious and murmuring ones. Given them; promised to the seed of Abraham, but not confined to that generation; the promise was made good, though to the next generation. Flowing with milk and honey: see Ezekiel 20:6.

Ezekiel 20:15

15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;