Ezekiel 20:5

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Summary

And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the LORD your God;

In the

Lifted up mine hand

And made

General references

Leviticus 18:2

Revelation 10:6

Bible References

In the

Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself.

Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He

personally brought you from Egypt by His great power,

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

“You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
So that you may know and believe Me
And understand that I am He.

Before Me there was no God formed,

And there will be none after Me.

“But now listen, O Jacob, My servant,
And Israel, whom I have chosen:

“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

Unless the Lord had shortened those days, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

Lifted up mine hand

on that day I swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord

God Most High,

possessor of heaven and earth,

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,

Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,

And made

therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord

was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Know this day that I am not speaking with your sons who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of the Lord your God—His greatness, His mighty hand and His outstretched arm,

He made known His ways to Moses,
His acts to the sons of Israel.

General references

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘I am the Lord your God.

and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer,