Ezekiel 20:28
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.”
עֵץ
Tree. Ets. A tree planted by rivers of water. The righteous person is like a tree with deep roots in God's word, bearing fruit in season and never withering.
רוּם
high
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רוּם
To be high, to be exalted, to rise. Ruwm. I dwell on a high and holy place but also with the contrite. God is both transcendent and intimately near.
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יָד
hand/ my
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יָד
Hand. Yad. The hand as the symbol of power and action. When God's hand rests on a life nothing is impossible.
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זֶבַח
sacrifices/ their
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זֶבַח
properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)
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נָשָׂא
I had lifted up
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נָשָׂא
To lift up, to bear, to forgive. Nasa. God lifts the weight of guilt. He carries what we cannot carry.
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כֹּל
every
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כֹּל
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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קׇרְבָּן
offering/ their
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קׇרְבָּן
something brought near the altar, i.e. a sacrificial present
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שָׁם
there
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שָׁם
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
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נִיחוֹחַ
soothing/ their
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נִיחוֹחַ
properly, restful, i.e. pleasant; abstractly, delight
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נֶסֶךְ
drink offerings/ their
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נֶסֶךְ
a libation; also a cast idol
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עָבֹת
leafy
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עָבֹת
intwined, i.e. dense
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רֵיחַ
the odor of
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רֵיחַ
odor (as if blown)
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גִּבְעָה
hill
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גִּבְעָה
a hillock
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כַּעַס
the provocation of
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כַּעַס
vexation
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