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Ezekiel 20:22 KJV
Ezekiel · chapter 20 · verse 22
Nevertheless 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.Ezekiel 20:22 · King James Version
Ezekiel 20:22 in context
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;
24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- withdrewshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- pollutedchâlalproperly, to boreH2490 →
- wroughtʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- name'sshêman appellation, as amark or memorial of individualityH8034 →
- sightʻayinan eyeH5869 →
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— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-26