Ezekiel 20:37 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 20:37

I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

BSB

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ASV

And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

KJV

And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I will cause you to pass under the rod - This alludes to the custom of tithing the sheep. I take it from the rabbins. The sheep were all penned; and the shepherd stood at the door of the fold, where only one sheep could come out at once.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Or it may refer to those among them that repented and reformed; he will cause them to pass under the rod of affliction, and, having done them good by it, he will bring them again into the bond of the covenant, will be to them a God in covenant, and use them again as heirs of promise.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1840: “The Bond of the Covenant” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1885)

THIS striking utterance was given forth by that renowned Seer, Ezekiel, at the time when the Israelites, scattered in every country, had begun to forget their nationality. They judged it prudent and wise, as much as possible, to disguise their distinctive character and melt their race into the Babylonian or Chaldean—and become like the heathen.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether you will or not, ye shall be counted as Mine, and so shall be subjected to My chastening discipline (Mic 7:14), with a view to My ultimate saving of the chosen remnant (compare Joh 10:27-29). bond of . . . covenant--I will constrain you by sore chastisements to submit yourselves to the covenant to which ye are lastingly bound, though now you have cast away God's bond from you.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהַעֲבַרְתִּ֥י	ve.ha.'a.var.Ti	and I will make pass	H5674 →
אֶתְכֶ֖ם	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
תַּ֣חַת	Ta.chat	under	H8478 →
הַשָּׁ֑בֶט	ha.Sha.vet	the rod	H7626 →
וְהֵבֵאתִ֥י	ve.he.ve.Ti	and I will bring	H935 →
אֶתְכֶ֖ם	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
בְּמָסֹ֥רֶת	be.ma.So.ret	in [the] bond of	H4562 →
הַבְּרִֽית׃	ha.be.Rit	the covenant	H1285 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 27:32
Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:13
  In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under…
- Micah 7:14
  Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Through
Jeremiah 33:13
In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under…
leads to
- Leviticus 27:32
  Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
- Jeremiah 17:26
  And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices,…
- Luke 15:4
  “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds…
- John 10:3–4
  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel