These two chapters in Ezekiel rehearse parts of Israel’s tragic history in different ways. This episode discusses both chapters, but devotes more attention to several controversial and difficult passages in chapter 20. Ezekiel 19 is a lamentation that uses animal and plant imagery to describe the demise of Israel’s last few kings. Chapter 20 reviews Israel’s history of apostasy and Yahweh’s gracious refusal to abandon them altogether.
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This was a great episode! I love verses like Ezekiel 20:5 surface level readers to go deeper. 1) I loved your material on the golden calf and the bull of Jacob vs. mighty one of Jacob in Hebrew! That was good stuff with lots of explanatory power. 2) can you help me understand how Ezekiel 20:5 would be a reference to the golden calf incident at Sinai? Ezekiel 20:6 clearly says on that day God swore to bring them **OUT** of the land of Egypt… making Exodus 6:7 the more likely candidate, no?