1321 matching verse commentaries
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt,.... It was the Lord that brought them out from thence with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; that obliged Pharaoh to let them go, and gave them favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, that they went out unmolested by them: and brought them into the wilderness; before they went into the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I gave them my statutes,.... The precepts of his law, the law on Mount Sinai, of which there were not the like among other nations; nor were they given unto them, but were a special gift unto Israel, and greatly to be valued, Deuteronomy 4:8; and showed them judgments: the nature, use, and excellency of the the necessity and advantage of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Moreover, also, I gave them my sabbaths,.... The Targum is, "the days of the sabbaths;'' or sabbath days, the seventh day sabbaths, which recurring throughout the year are many; but, besides these, there were the year of remission, for the seventh year sabbath; and the jubilee year, the great sabbath of all, once in fifty years; yea, Kimchi thinks...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness,.... Where they were wholly at the mercy of God, entirely dependent upon him; and miracles were wrought every day for the sustaining and preservation of, them from famine, wild beasts, and enemies; yet they rebelled against the Lord; provoked him bitterly by their manifold...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the Heathen,.... [See comments on Ezekiel 20:9]; who would be ready to say it was for want of power, or faithfulness, or, goodness, that he did not bring them into the promised land; or there was no such land to bring them to God's own glory was concerned, and that is his...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yet also I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness,.... Swore unto them, as in Ezekiel 20:5; that I would not bring them into the land which I had given [them]; by promise to their fathers, and to them. This is to be understood of the generation that came out of Egypt, that received the ill report the spies made, and murmured against the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths,.... Which were just causes of divine resentment and anger; [See comments on Ezekiel 20:13]; for their heart went after their idols; which they had served in Egypt; and that led them off from the true worship and service of God; no man can serve two...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless, mine eye spared them from destroying them,.... Utterly, so as to leave neither root nor branch; for though the whole generation died excepting two, either by the immediate hand of God in wrath, or else by ordinary deaths; yet there was a generation raised up in their stead, to whom mercy was shown: neither did I make an end of them...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But I said unto their children in the wilderness,.... Or, "then I said" (k); his judgments and statutes being neglected and despised by them, and good instructions and kind providences being of no use unto them, the Lord turns to their posterity while yet in the wilderness: what follows seems to refer to those directions, instructions, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I [am] the Lord your God,.... Not only that had made them and preserved them, but had chose them above all people to be his people; who had made a covenant with them, and had distinguished them by his favours from all others: walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; which he had given unto their fathers, and they had neglected and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And hallow my sabbaths,.... Or keep them holy, by abstaining from worldly business on them; by observing all the duties of religion, private and public, to be performed on such days: and they shall be a sign between me and you; of present and future good; [See comments on Ezekiel 20:12]; that ye may know that I [am] the Lord your God; not only...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me,.... After the death of their fathers, when they were come into the plains of Moab, and just going to enter the land; they rebelled against the Lord, and greatly provoked him, by joining themselves to Baalpeor, the idol of Moab, they worshipped, Numbers 25:3; they walked not in my statutes, neither...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand,.... When it was stretched out against them, as in the above instance, and did not utterly consume them. The Targum is, "and I turned away the stroke of my might:'' 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. [See comments on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I lifted up mine hand also to them in the wilderness,.... Swore unto them, as in Ezekiel 20:5; that I would scatter them among the Heathen, and disperse them through the countries; after they came to be settled in the land of Canaan, they sinning against the Lord; which was fulfilled in the times of the Babylonish captivity, and in their...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Because they had not executed my judgments,.... Had not done that which was right and just, as the Lord commanded them: but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths; as their fathers had done: and their eyes were after their fathers' idols; which they had learned to serve in Egypt, or brought with them from thence; these the eyes and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore I gave them also statutes [that were] not good,.... Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of it; for that is holy, just, and good, though the killing letter and ministration of condemnation and death to the transgressors of it; indeed those laws were both good and bad to different persons, as Abendana observes; good to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And one polluted them in their own gifts,.... Suffered them to defile themselves; or declared them to be, and treated them as polluted persons, in the gifts and sacrifices which they offered to idols, particularly their firstborn: as the next clause explains it: in that they caused to pass though [the fire] all that openeth the womb; this very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them,.... The elders of Israel, Ezekiel 20:1; who came in the name of the whole body, and represented them, and by whom the following message is sent unto them; or the prophet by them might speak unto them, as he is ordered: thus saith the Lord God, yet in this your fathers have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[For] when I had brought them into the land,.... Brought them out of Egypt through the wilderness into the land of Canaan, through so many difficulties, by such displays of power, goodness, and truth: [for] the which I lifted up mine band to give it to them; which he swore he would give unto them, and which he did, and so fulfilled his word and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then I said unto them,.... By his prophets that he sent unto them: what is the high place where, unto you go? what is the name of it? what is the use of it? to what end do you go there? is there not an altar built by my order and command to sacrifice upon is this high place better than that? does it answer a better end and purpose? and the name...