Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good,.... Yea, were very bad; not the moral law, and the statutes of it; for that is holy, just, and good, though the killing letter and ministration…
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…
Adam Clarke
I gave them also statutes that were not good - What a foolish noise has been made about this verse by critics, believers and infidels! How is it that God can be said "to give a people statutes that…
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…
Cambridge Bible
Wherefore I gave … also Moreover also I gave, see Eze 20:20.
statutes … not good These statutes are of a kind contrary to those given before (Eze 20:20) which were good. These points seem plain: 1.…
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