King James Version
Ezekiel 20:14 in the King James Version says “But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.”
Ezekiel 20:14 · KJV
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“for my name's”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
properly, a failure of, i.e., (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because n
“sake that it should not be polluted”
H2490properly, to bore, i.e., (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin
“before”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“I brought them out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“before”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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