Ezekiel Chapter 20 verse 35 Holy Bible
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
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And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.
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and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
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And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
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and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
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And I have brought you in unto the wilderness of the peoples, And have been judged with you there face to face.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(35) Into the wilderness of the people.--As in the past there was a period of probation and discipline in the wilderness, so shall there be in the future. The similarity is insisted upon in Ezekiel 20:36, and the phrase "face to face" is taken from Deuteronomy 5:4, not to show that the Lord will interpose again with the same sensible manifestations, but will plead with them in ways equally adapted, in their more advanced condition, to show them His overruling hand. As this phrase is plainly to be understood according to its sense, and not according to the letter, so it is quite idle to attempt to locate "the wilderness of the people" as any material wilderness, as that of Arabia, or that between Babylonia and Palestine. The phrase must mean that wilderness condition of the people, scattered among the nations, in which the Lord will plead with them as He did with their fathers. This might refer, as some commentators think, to the state of the Jews in our own time, dispersed among all nations; but there is nothing in the connection to indicate so distant a future, and it may quite as well refer to the then approaching condition of the people. Already many thousands of them had been carried captive to Babylon; others (see Jeremiah 10:12; Jeremiah 43:5) had been scattered among all the surrounding nations; the mass of the ten tribes had long before been carried by the king of Assyria to other regions; and the large remnant still left in Judaea, influenced by their own fears, soon afterwards went down to Egypt. In Ezekiel's own life-time, Israel was scattered widely among all the prominent nations of the earth, and thus brought into the "wilderness of the people."Parallel Commentaries ...HebrewAnd I will bringוְהֵבֵאתִ֣י (wə·hê·ḇê·ṯî)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singularStrong's 935: To come in, come, go in, goyouאֶתְכֶ֔ם (’eṯ·ḵem)Direct object marker | second person masculine pluralStrong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative caseintoאֶל־ (’el-)PrepositionStrong's 413: Near, with, among, tothe wildernessמִדְבַּ֖ר (miḏ·bar)Noun - masculine singular constructStrong's 4057: A pasture, a desert, speechof the nations,הָֽעַמִּ֑ים (hā·‘am·mîm)Article | Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock[where]שָׁ֔ם (šām)AdverbStrong's 8033: There, then, thitherI will enter into judgmentוְנִשְׁפַּטְתִּ֤י (wə·niš·paṭ·tî)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singularStrong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigatewith youאִתְּכֶם֙ (’it·tə·ḵem)Preposition | second person masculine pluralStrong's 854: Nearness, near, with, by, at, amongfaceפָּנִ֖ים (pā·nîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 6440: The facetoאֶל־ (’el-)PrepositionStrong's 413: Near, with, among, toface.פָּנִֽים׃ (pā·nîm)Noun - masculine pluralStrong's 6440: The faceJump to PreviousCause Desert Enter Execute Face Judged Judgment Nations Peoples Plead Waste Wilderness
