Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land as to which I had lifted up mine hand to give it them, then beheld they every high hill and every tangled tree And offered there their sacrifices, And presented there, their provoking gift, And placed there, their satisfying odour, And poured out there, their drink- offerings.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

In Context

27Therefore speak thou unto the house of Israel Son of man, and say unto them, Thus saith My Lord Yahweh,— Yet further in this, did your fathers insult me, by the treachery wherewith they dealt treacherously against me;

29Therefore said I unto them, What! a high-place, whereinto ye are entering? And so the name thereof hath been called High-place, until this day.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:3Sojourn in this land, that I may be with thee and bless thee,—for, to thee, and to thy seed, will I give all these lands, So will I establish the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father;

Joshua 23:3but, ye, have seen—all that Yahweh your God hath done unto all those nations, because of you,—for, Yahweh your God, is he that hath fought for you.

2 Kings 17:9And the sons of Israel did, secretly, things which were not right, against Yahweh their God,—and built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchmen’s tower, to the fortified city.

2 Kings 17:12and they served the manufactured gods, as to which Yahweh had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Psalms 78:55So he drave out, before them, [whole] nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

Psalms 105:8He hath remembered, unto times age-abiding, his covenant, The word he commanded, to a thousand generations;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 20:28-33

The Rebellions of Israel. ( b. c. 592.) 27 Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God ; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me. 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made… Read the whole commentary →

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