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Ezekiel 20

Ezek. 20:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yet also I lifted up
nasa' (Hebrew #5375)
a primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absol. and rel. (as follows)
KJV usage: accept, advance, arise, (able to, (armor), suffer to) bear(-er, up), bring (forth), burn, carry (away), cast, contain, desire, ease, exact, exalt (self), extol, fetch, forgive, furnish, further, give, go on, help, high, hold up, honorable (+ man), lade, lay, lift (self) up, lofty, marry, magnify, X needs, obtain, pardon, raise (up), receive, regard, respect, set (up), spare, stir up, + swear, take (away, up), X utterly, wear, yield.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: or nacah (Psalm 4 : 6 (7)) {naw-saw'}
my hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
unto them in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
, that I wouldu not bring
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
them into the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
which I had given
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
them, flowing
zuwb (Hebrew #2100)
to flow freely (as water), i.e. (specifically) to have a (sexual) flux; figuratively, to waste away; also to overflow
KJV usage: flow, gush out, have a (running) issue, pine away, run.
Pronounce: zoob
Origin: a primitive root
with milk
chalab (Hebrew #2461)
milk (as the richness of kine)
KJV usage: + cheese, milk, sucking.
Pronounce: khaw-lawb'
Origin: from the same as 2459
and honey
dbash (Hebrew #1706)
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
KJV usage: honey((-comb)).
Pronounce: deb-ash'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be gummy
, which is the glory
tsbiy (Hebrew #6643)
splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful)
KJV usage: beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
Pronounce: tseb-ee'
Origin: from 6638 in the sense of prominence
of all lands
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Psa. 95:11• 11So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest. (Psa. 95:11)

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Glory,
Honey,
Milk,
Wilderness

Cross References

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I lifted.
Ezek. 20:23• 23I lifted up my hand also unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; (Ezek. 20:23)
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Num. 14:23‑30• 23shall in no wise see the land which I did swear unto their fathers: none of them that despised me shall see it.
 24But my servant Caleb, because he hath another spirit in him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he came; and his seed shall possess it.
 25(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley.) To-morrow turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness, on the way to the Red sea.
 26And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
 27How long shall I bear with this evil assembly, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
 28Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
 29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
 30shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (Num. 14:23‑30)
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Num. 26:64‑65• 64But among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
 65For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. (Num. 26:64‑65)
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Deut. 1:34‑35• 34And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying,
 35None among these men, this evil generation, shall in any wise see that good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers! (Deut. 1:34‑35)
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Psa. 95:11• 11So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest. (Psa. 95:11)
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Psa. 106:26• 26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness; (Psa. 106:26)
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Heb. 3:11• 11so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest. (Heb. 3:11)
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Heb. 3:18• 18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word? (Heb. 3:18)
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Heb. 4:3• 3For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world. (Heb. 4:3)
flowing.
Ezek. 20:6• 6in that day I lifted up my hand unto them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornament of all lands; (Ezek. 20:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I also lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the ornamenta of all lands;

JND Translation Notes

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As ver. 6.