King James Version
Ezekiel 20:23 in the King James Version says “I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them t...” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;”
Ezekiel 20:23 · KJV
Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“I lifted up”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“mine hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“unto them also in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
“that I would scatter”
H6327to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“them among the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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