Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:10-26
The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here continued: and the instances of that struggle in these verses have reference to what passed between God and them in the wilderness, in which God honoured himself and they shamed themselves. The story of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the New Testament (1 Co. 10 and Heb. 3), as well as often in the Old, for warning to us Christians; and therefore we are particularly concerned in these verses. Observe,
I. The great things God did for them, which he puts them in mind of, not as grudging them hi…
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It is an indirect denial of God, and a robbing Him of His due, to add man's inventions to His precepts.
Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 20:18
But I said unto their children - These I chose in their fathers' stead; and to them I purposed to give the inheritance which their fathers by disobedience lost.
John Gill on Ezekiel 20:19
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 despised; those contained in the decalogue, and in the whole book of Deuteronomy, and elsewhere,
John Calvin on Ezekiel 20:18-19
Ezekiel 20:18-19
18. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
18. Et dixi ad filios ipsorum in deserto, In decretis, [271] patrum vestrorum ne ambuletis, et indicia ipsorum ne servetis: et in idolis [272] ipsorum ne polluamini.
19. I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
19. Ego Iehovah Deus vester, in decretis meis ambulate, et judicia mea servate, et facite ea.
After God has shown that the obstinate wickedness of the people was such that they profited by neither rigor nor clemency, he now says that the sons were altoget…
