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Ezekiel 20:21 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 20 · verse 21
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.Ezekiel 20:21 · King James Version
Ezekiel 20:21 in context
19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
20And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
22Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
23I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- judgmentsmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- rebelledmârâhto be bitterH4784 →
- statuteschuqqâh{an enactmentH2708 →
- pollutedchâlalproperly, to boreH2490 →
- sabbathsshabbâthintermission, i.e the SabbathH7676 →
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— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-26