But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
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Gill's Exposition
But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the Heathen,.... See Gill on Eze 20:9; who would be ready to say it was for want of power, or faithfulness, or, goodness, that…
The probation in the wilderness. The promise was forfeited by those to whom it was first conditionally made, but was renewed to their children. Eze 20:11 The “statutes” were given on Mount Sinai, and…
The history of the struggle between the sins of Israel, by which they endeavoured to ruin themselves, and the mercies of God, by which he endeavoured to save them and make them happy, is here…
For his name's sake Jehovah did not make a clean end of the people, nevertheless he sware that the generation that came out of Egypt should not enter into the land of promise, Num 14:22-23; Num 14:29:…
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