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Ezechiele 20:39

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39 Voi dunque, o casa d’Israele, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Andate, servite ciascuno a’ vostri idoli; sì, poscia che voi non mi volete ascoltare; e non profanate più il mio santo Nome con le vostre offerte, e co’ vostri idoli.

Ezechiele 20:39 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:39

As for you, O house of Israel
The then present house of Israel, and the elders of it, who were upon the spot with the prophet: go ye, serve ye everyone his idols;
or dunghill gods; since they liked not to serve the true God: this is not giving them leave to serve idols, or approving their idolatrous practices; but is said "ironically", as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, who compare it with ( Ecclesiastes 11:9 ) : and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me;
not only serve them now, but for the future; seeing ye choose not to hearken to my voice, to obey my laws, and to worship me, and me only; for it suggests, that it was better to attend to the service of the one, or of the other, and not halt between two opinions; but either, if the God of Israel was the true God, then serve him, and him only; but if Baal, or any other Heathen deity, was so, then serve them, and keep serving them: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts and with your
idols;
to worship him along with them, and them along with him; to pretend they worshipped him in them, and offered their gifts and sacrifices to him through them; and so made use of his name as a cover to their idolatrous practices: this was a polluting his name, and was abominable to him.

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Ezechiele 20:39 In-Context

37 e vi farò passar sotto la verga, e vi metterò ne’ legami del patto;
38 e metterò da parte, d’infra voi, i ribelli, e quelli che si rivoltano da me; io li trarrò fuor del paese delle lor dimore, ma pur non entreranno nel paese d’Israele; e voi conoscerete che io sono il Signore.
39 Voi dunque, o casa d’Israele, così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Andate, servite ciascuno a’ vostri idoli; sì, poscia che voi non mi volete ascoltare; e non profanate più il mio santo Nome con le vostre offerte, e co’ vostri idoli.
40 Perciocchè nel mio monte santo, nell’alto monte d’Israele, dice il Signore Iddio, quivi mi servirà tutta quanta la casa d’Israele, che sarà nella terra; quivi li gradirò, e quivi richiederò le vostre offerte, e le primizie de’ vostri doni, con tutte le vostre cose consacrate.
41 Io vi gradirò co’ vostri soavi odori, dopo che vi avrò tratti fuori d’infra i popoli, e vi avrò raccolti da’ paesi, dove sarete stati dispersi; e mi santificherò in voi nel cospetto delle nazioni.
The Giovanni Diodati Bible is in the public domain.

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