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Ezekiel 20:7

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And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And I said unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God.

KJV

Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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This verse in Ezekiel 20

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Version 7) And I said to them: Let each one cast away the offenses of their eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. LXX: And I said to them: Let each one cast away the abominations of their eyes, and do not be polluted with the inventions of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

This site's exposition

Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes

on Ezekiel 20:7-9

Even inside Egypt, before the Exodus began, Israel is charged to cast away the idols of Egypt, and even there they rebelled. I wrought for my name's sake states the pattern that recurs three times, mercy granted for the sake of the Lord's reputation among the nations.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): " Cast you away every man his images that he uses for worship, that are the adorations, but should be the abominations, of his eyes. Let him abominate them, and put them out of his sight, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. " Of these, it seems, many of them were fond; the golden calf was one of them.

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Then I said unto them,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Egypt') for My name's sake"; not for their merits (a rebuke to their national pride). God's "name" means the sum-total of His perfections. To manifest these, His gratuitous mercy abounding above their sins, yet without wrong to His justice, and so to set forth His glory, was and is the ultimate end of His dealings (Eze 20:14, 22;

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Cast ye away - the abominations - Put away all your idols; those incentives to idolatry that ye have looked on with delight.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וָאֹמַ֣רand I said

    vaomarH559 →5305 times

  • אֲלֵהֶ֗םto them

    ʾalehemH413 →5510 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • שִׁקּוּצֵ֤י[the] detestable things of

    shikutzeiH8251 →28 times

  • עֵינָיו֙eyes his

    ʾeinavH5869 →887 times

  • הַשְׁלִ֔יכוּthrow away

    hashlikhuH7993 →125 times

  • וּבְגִלּוּלֵ֥יand by [the] idols of

    uvegiluleiH1544 →48 times

  • מִצְרַ֖יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408 →724 times

  • תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּyou make yourselves unclean

    titamauH2930 →162 times

  • אֲנִ֖יI

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

  • יְהוָ֥ה[am] Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.8 worksLeviticus 18:3You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.7 worksEzekiel 20:8But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.5 worksEzekiel 18:31Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?4 worksDeuteronomy 29:16–18For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.4 worksLeviticus 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 18:6He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.3 worksEzekiel 23:3and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.3 works2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.3 worksEzekiel 23:8She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her.3 worksLeviticus 17:7They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’3 worksIsaiah 31:7For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.3 worksEzekiel 14:6Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.3 worksEzekiel 20:19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.3 worksEzekiel 18:15He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.3 worksExodus 16:12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”3 worksExodus 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.3 worksExodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.3 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Leviticus 11:44

    For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 20:2

      “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

    • 1 Peter 1:15–16

      But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do,

    • Leviticus 19:2

      “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

    • Leviticus 20:7

      Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

    • 1 Thessalonians 4:7

      For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 18:31

    Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?

    it leads to

    • Psalms 51:10

      Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

    • Ezekiel 36:26

      I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

    • Romans 8:13

      For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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