That I would scatter them, &c.— We do not read in the history of the Israelites in the wilderness, that they were scattered through the countries by their God, when enraged against them. But what Ezekiel here supplies in the history is easily collected from God's desertion of the Israelites when they were disobedient and rebellious: for thus he delivered them to the Amalekites. Thus also the neighbouring Arabs might carry off many of them captives; and thus also all the neighbouring people might attack and distress them with war. See Houbigant.
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Ezekiel 20:23
23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;