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NASB | Ezra 9:2 "For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ezra 9:2 "For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands. Indeed, the officials and chief men have been foremost in this unfaithful act and direct violation [of God's will]." [Deut 7:3, 4] |
Bible Question:
ischus, What is your take on this verse, does God give statutes that are not good? "I also gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live; and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the LORD." Ezek 20:25-26 Emmaus |
Bible Answer: Does God give statutes that are not good? No, never! Romans 7:12 (ESV) So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 1 Tim. 1:8 (ESV) Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, Psalm 19:7a (ESV) The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; JamiesonFaussetBrown 25. 'I gave them . . . statutes . . . not good--Since they would not follow My statutes that were good, "I gave them" their own (Ezekiel 20:18*) and their fathers' "which were not good"; statutes spiritually corrupting,' (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/JamiesonFaussetBrown). *Ezek. 20:18 But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols: MatthewHenryComplete 'They would not regard the statutes and judgments by which God prescribed them their duty, but despised them, and therefore God gave them statutes and judgments which were not good, and by which they should not live, v. 25. By this we may understand the several ways by which God punished them while they were in the wilderness—the plague that broke in upon them, the fiery serpent, and the like—which, in allusion to the law they had broken, are called judgments, because inflicted by the justice of God, and statutes, because he gave orders concerning them and commanded desolations as sometimes he had commanded deliverances, and appointed Israel’s plagues as he had done the plagues of Egypt. When God said, I will consume them in a moment (Num. 16:21), when he said, Take the heads of the people and hang them up (Num. 25:4), when he threatened them with the curse and obliged them to say Amen to every curse (Deu. 27:28), then he gave them judgments by which they should not live. More is implied than is expressed; they are judgments by which they should die. Those that will not be bound by the precepts of the law shall be bound by the sentence of it; for one way or other the word of God will take hold of men, Zec. 1:6. Spiritual judgments are the most dreadful; and these God punished them with. The statutes and judgments which the heathen observed in the worship of their idols were not good, and in practising them they could not live; and God gave them up to those' (http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/MatthewHenryComplete/). |