Ezequiel 36:20

20 E, chegando �s nações para onde foram, profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia deles: São estes o povo do Senhor, e tiveram de sair da sua terra.

Ezequiel 36:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they entered unto the Heathen, whither they went,
&c.] When the Jews went into the Heathen countries, whither they were carried captive, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans: they profaned my holy name;
by their irreligion and immorality; by their violation of both tables of the law; by their wicked lives and conversations, whereby they gave the enemy an occasion to reproach them, their religion, and their God, ( Romans 2:24 ) : when they said to them, these are the people of the Lord, and are gone
forth out of his land;
these are the men that boast they are the people of the Lord, whom he has chosen above all people, and see what a wicked people they are; for their sins they are driven out of the land, and become our captives: or though they were the Lord's people, as they pretend, and were under his care and protection; yet he was not able to keep them in their own land, and deliver them out of our hands, but they are carried captive by us; and thus the name of God, his being and perfections, were blasphemed, and his word, worship, and worshippers, were ridiculed by them. The Targum is,

``if these are the people of the Lord, how is it that they are gone out of the land of the house of his majesty?''

Ezequiel 36:20 In-Context

18 Derramei, pois, o meu furor sobre eles, por causa do sangue que derramaram sobre a terra, e porque a contaminaram com os seus ídolos;

19 e os espalhei entre as nações, e foram dispersos pelas terras; conforme os seus caminhos, e conforme os seus feitos, eu os julguei.

20 E, chegando �s nações para onde foram, profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia deles: São estes o povo do Senhor, e tiveram de sair da sua terra.

21 Mas eu os poupei por amor do meu santo nome, que a casa de Israel profanou entre as nações para onde foi.

22 Dize portanto � casa de Israel: Assim diz o Senhor Deus: Não é por amor de vós que eu faço isto, o casa de Israel; mas em atenção ao meu santo nome, que tendes profanado entre as nações para onde fostes;