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Ezekiel 7:20

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His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.

KJV

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

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This verse in Ezekiel 7

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 20) And they put the ornament of their necklaces upon their pride, and they made images of their abominations and idols from it. LXX: The chosen ones of the world have put it upon their pride, and they have made images of their abominations and stumbling blocks from it. Which I, he says, had given as an ornament to those who possessed and to the wealthy, they have turned into pride, so that they could use them to free their own souls through alms and good works, and from them they had material for arrogance.

This site's exposition

the beauty of his ornament

on Ezekiel 7:20-22

The charge narrows to the temple's own furnishings, the beauty of his ornament set in majesty turned instead into the material for images of their abominations, so God gives the desecrated treasure into the hands of strangers for a prey. Verse 22 states the withdrawal directly, my face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place, the inner sanctuary left open to robbers because the presence that had guarded it has turned away. Keil sets this beside the glory's literal departure narrated in chapters 8-11, the withdrawal announced here in judgment-speech and shown there as vision.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

As for the beauty of his ornament - Their beautiful temple was their highest ornament, and God made it majestic by his presence. But they have even taken its riches to make their idols, which they have brought into the very courts of the Lord’s house; and therefore God hath set it - the temple, from him - given it up to pillage. Some say it means, “They took their ornaments, which were their pride, and made them into images to worship.”

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The Margin translates, "Made it unto them an unclean thing" (compare Margin on Eze 7:19, "removed"); what I designed for their glory they turned to their shame, therefore I will make it turn to their ignominy and ruin.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וּצְבִ֤יand [the] beauty of

    utzeviH6643 →33 times

  • עֶדְיוֹ֙ornament[s] its

    edyoH5716 →14 times

  • לְגָא֣וֹןinto pride

    legaonH1347 →49 times

  • שָׂמָ֔הוּhe has made it

    samahuH7760 →584 times

  • וְצַלְמֵ֧יand [the] images of

    vetzalmeiH6754 →17 times

  • תוֹעֲבֹתָ֛םabominations their

    toavotamH8441 →117 times

  • שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶ֖םdetestable things their

    shikutzeihemH8251 →28 times

  • עָ֣שׂוּthey have made

    ʾasuH6213 →2628 times

  • ב֑וֹwith it

    vo

  • עַל־there-

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כֵּ֛ן-fore

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • נְתַתִּ֥יוI will make it

    netativH5414 →2011 times

  • לָהֶ֖םfor them

    lahem

  • לְנִדָּֽה׃into an impure thing

    lenidahH5079 →29 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 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’5 worksEzekiel 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.5 worksJeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.5 worksEzekiel 23:38They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.4 worksEzekiel 8:7–10Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.3 worksEzekiel 9:7Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.3 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.3 worksEzekiel 8:15–16“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”3 worksEzekiel 11:18When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.3 worksPsalms 87:2–3The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.2 worksJeremiah 7:14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.2 worksPsalms 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.2 works2 Chronicles 2:9to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.2 worksEzra 3:12But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.2 works2 Chronicles 33:4–7Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”2 works2 Kings 21:7Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.2 worksLamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.2 works2 Chronicles 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.2 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

    Isaiah 64:11

    Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 74:5–7

      like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

    • 2 Kings 25:9

      He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    • 2 Chronicles 36:19

      Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

    • Lamentations 1:7

      In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked…

    • Lamentations 1:10–11

      The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 24:21

    Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 23:47

      The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

    • Ezekiel 23:25

      And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 7:30

    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 32:34

      They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 7 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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