Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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Nevertheless Mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 20:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 11:13 When I prophesied, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
- Jeremiah 4:27 For Yahweh says, “The whole land will be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
- Jeremiah 5:18 “But even in those days,” says Yahweh, “I will not make a full end of you.
- 1 Samuel 24:10 Behold, today your eyes have seen how Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not stretch out my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh’s anointed.
- Nehemiah 9:19 yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Psalms 78:37-38 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
- Ezekiel 7:2 “You, son of man, the Lord Yahweh says to the land of Israel, ‘An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.
- Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
- Ezekiel 9:10 As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”
- Nahum 1:8-9 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness. What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain This is added, because God often afflicted the people…
This is added, because God often afflicted the people with heavy punishments, but he restrained himself, that he should not utterly destroy both their persons and their name. He says, then, that he spared them through respect for his own name, as he formerly said, that he should not execute consumption on them; that is, that he should not utterly blot out the memory of them. He did not spare them entirely to foster their depravity by his indulgence, but as we shall afterwards see, he withdrew his hand that he should not consume them, as he might most justly have done. It now follows —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying…
Eze 20:17 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Ver. 17. Nevertheless mine eye spared them.] It was by a non obstante of God’s mercy, and by a prop of his extraordinary patience, that they subsisted.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Nevertheless mine eye spared them; though they did highly…
Nevertheless mine eye spared them; though they did highly provoke God, and deserved to be cut off, yet his eye pitied them: they provoked his wrath, he stirred up his compassions.
Them; not all of them, for many did die in the wilderness, and, among these, some by immediate wrath; but how many soever they were, yet the growing generation was spared, and the nation was not extirpated.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Nevertheless, mine eye spared them from destroying them,.... Utterly,…
Nevertheless, mine eye spared them from destroying them,.... Utterly, so as to leave neither root nor branch; for though the whole generation died excepting two, either by the immediate hand of God in wrath, or else by ordinary deaths; yet there was a generation raised up in their stead, to whom mercy was shown:
neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness; that they should be no more a nation and people; though the carcasses of them that believed not fell in the wilderness, and never saw the good land, yet their posterity was spared to see it, and did.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Nevertheless--How marvellous that God should spare such sinners! His…
Nevertheless--How marvellous that God should spare such sinners! His everlasting covenant explains it, His long-suffering standing out in striking contrast to their rebellions (Psa 78:38; Jer 30:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. Nevertheless mine eye spared them — So identified…
17. Nevertheless mine eye spared them — So identified were Israel and Jehovah in the eyes of the nations that he could not have utterly annihilated the nation, as justice seemed to demand, without bringing dishonor upon his own name (Deu_9:28-29). Therefore, and because of his own special love and pity for them (Num_14:20; Psa_78:38), he did not wholly cut them off, root and branch, in the wilderness; but, while he executed judgment upon that generation (Eze_20:15; Num_14:28), he spared the children and exhorted them to do better than their fathers (Eze_20:18). It is worthy of notice that Ezekiel knew the Hebrew history well and gave the same interpretation of it that orthodoxy has always given.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Another motive besides regard for his own name…
17. Another motive besides regard for his own name moved Jehovah to spare Israel—pity for the sinners; cf. Psa_78:38, “But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not; yea many a time he turned his anger away”. Num_14:20.
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