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Ezekiel 20:17

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Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 17

In this chapter, I. The prophet is consulted by some of the elders of Israel (Eze 20:1). II. He is instructed by his God what answer to give them. He must, 1. Signify God's displeasure against them (Eze 20:2, Eze 20:3). And, 2. He must show them what just cause he had for that displeasure, by giving them a history of God's grateful dealings with their fathers and their treacherous dealings with God. (1.) In Egypt (Eze 20:5-9). (2.) In the wilderness (v. 10-26). (3.) In Canaan (Eze 20:27-32). 3. He must denounce the judgments of God against them (Eze 20:33-36). 4. He must tell them likewise what mercy God had in store for them, when he would bring a remnant of them to repentance, re-establish them in their own land, and set up his sanctuary among them again (Eze 20:37-44). 5. Here is another word dropped towards Jerusalem, which is explained and enlarged upon in the next chapter (Eze 20:45-49).

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Strong's Concordancev. 17

עַיִן (ʻayin, H5869) — an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) חוּס (chûwç, H2347) — properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate שָׁחַת (shâchath, H7843) — to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively) עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, H6213) — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application כָּלָה (kâlâh, H3617) — a completion; adverb, completely; also destruction מִדְבָּר (midbâr, H4057) — a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also…

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Ezekiel 11:13rank 4

Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”

Jeremiah 5:18rank 3

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

Jeremiah 4:27rank 3

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

I Samuel 24:10rank 2

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’

Nehemiah 9:19rank 2

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

Ezekiel 7:2rank 2

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Ezekiel 8:18rank 2

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10rank 2

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

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