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Ask a Questionworshipped--In the Hebrew a corrupt form is used to express Ezekiel's sense of the foul corruption of such worship.
I will testify--that is, for failure to worship aught. thy God--and so, by covenant as well as creation, entitled to a pure worship.
The purpose of engaging in God's worship is avowed.
name--as (Ps 5:11; 8:1). beauty of holiness--the loveliness of a spiritual worship, of which the perceptible beauty of the sanctuary worship was but a type.
enticed--away from God to idolatry. kissed...hand--"adoration," literally means this. In worshipping they used to kiss the hand, and then throw the kiss, as it were, towards the object of worship...
all the congregation...worshipped the Lord, and the king--Though the external attitude might be the same, the sentiments of which it was expressive were very different in the two cases--of divine ...
Moses comes to the statutes he had to give in charge to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. The Israelites are charged not to bring the rites and usages of idolaters...
The special object of desire was God's perfections as displayed in his worship (Ps 27:4).
organs--or pipe, a wind instrument, and the others were used in worship.
If I looked unto the sun (as an object of worship) because he shined; or to the moon because she walked, &c. Sabaism (from tsaba, "the heavenly hosts") was the earliest form of false worship. God...
Aholah--that is, "Her tent" (put for worship, as the first worship of God in Israel was in a tent or tabernacle), as contrasted with Aholibah, that is, "My tent in her." The Beth-el worship of...
Woman, &c.--Here are three weighty pieces of information: (1) The point raised will very soon cease to be of any moment, for a total change of dispensation is about to come over the Church. (2) The...
multitude of mountains--that is, the multitude of gods worshipped on them (compare Ps 121:1, 2, Margin).
the altar--as the chief place of worship. The mention of the harp suggests the prominence of praise in his offering.
We need quickening grace (Ps 71:20; 119:25) to persevere in Thy right worship (Ge 4:26; Ro 10:11).
rivers--literally, the "channels" of torrents. Rivers were often the scene and objects of idolatrous worship.
These verses arm believers against idolatry and all false worship, by showing what sort of gods the heathen worshipped. And the more deplorable the condition of the Gentile nations that worship...
Nibhaz--under that of a dog--that Egyptian form of animal-worship having prevailed in ancient Syria, as is evident from the image of a large dog at the mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb, or Dog river. ...
serve--that is, worship; as in Isa 19:23. God is to be supplied (compare Isa 1:19, 20).
A solemn appeal to God to witness their constancy. stretched out...hands--gesture of worship (Ex 9:29; Ps 88:9).
Moses bowed...and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.
upon their gods--used either according to Scripture phraseology to denote their rulers (the first-born of the king and his princes) or the idolatrous objects of Egyptian worship.
appear before God--in acts of worship, the terms used in the command for the stated personal appearance of the Jews at the sanctuary.
The verbs are properly rendered as futures, "I will remember," &c.,--that is, the recollection of this season of distress will give greater zest to the privileges of God's worship, when obtained.
He instances one sin, idolatry, as representative of all their sins; as nothing is dearer to God than a pure worship of Himself.
"We are the (real) circumcision" (Ro 2:25-29; Col 2:11). worship God in the Spirit--The oldest manuscripts read, "worship by the Spirit of God"; our religious service is rendered by the Spirit...
Abraham planted a grove--Hebrew, "of tamarisks," in which sacrificial worship was offered, as in a roofless temple.
high places of Baal--eminences consecrated to the worship of Baal-peor (see on Nu 25:3) or Chemosh.
As exemplified by the fruits of divine grace, presented in his life, especially in his avoiding the wicked and his purposes of cleaving to God's worship.