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Ezequiel 20:7

Listen to Ezequiel 20:7
7 E eu lhes disse: Desfaçam-se, todos vocês, das imagens repugnantes em que vocês puseram os seus olhos e não se contaminem com os ídolos do Egito. Eu sou o SENHOR, o seu Deus.

Ezequiel 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:7

Then I said unto them
Having promised and swore to do such great and good things for them; which must lay them under an obligation to regard what he should command them: promises and blessings of goodness are great incentives to duty, and lay under great obligation to it: cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes;
which should be so, meaning idols; but which his eyes were taken with, and were lifted up unto, as his gods; though they ought to have been rejected with the utmost abhorrence, as abominable: and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt;
their "dunghill gods", as the word F6 signifies; which to worship, as it was an abomination to God, was defiling to themselves; yet these they were fond of, and prone to worship them; their eyes and their hearts were after them; and they needed such cautions and instructions as these, backed with the following strong reason against such idolatry: I [am] the Lord your God;
their Creator and Benefactor, their covenant God; the only Lord God, and whom only they ought to serve and worship; to whom they were under ten thousand obligations; and who was infinitely above all the idols of Egypt.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 (ylwlgb) "stercoreis diis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "stercoribus", Piscator, Cocceius.
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Ezequiel 20:7 In-Context

5 e diga-lhes: Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR: No dia em que escolhi Israel, jurei com mão erguida aos descendentes da família de Jacó e me revelei a eles no Egito. Com mão erguida eu lhes disse: Eu sou o SENHOR, o seu Deus.
6 Naquele dia jurei a eles que os tiraria do Egito e os levaria para uma terra que eu havia procurado para eles, terra onde há leite e mel com fartura, a mais linda de todas as terras.
7 E eu lhes disse: Desfaçam-se, todos vocês, das imagens repugnantes em que vocês puseram os seus olhos e não se contaminem com os ídolos do Egito. Eu sou o SENHOR, o seu Deus.
8 “Mas eles se rebelaram contra mim e não quiseram ouvir-me; não se desfizeram das imagens repugnantes em que haviam posto os seus olhos nem abandonaram os ídolos do Egito. Por isso eu disse que derramaria a minha ira sobre eles e que lançaria a minha indignação contra eles no Egito.
9 Mas, por amor do meu nome, eu agi, evitando que o meu nome fosse profanado aos olhos das nações entre as quais eles estavam e à vista de quem eu tinha me revelado aos israelitas para tirá-los do Egito.
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