Reading for March 14th

Read Ezekiel 20.1-44 Ezekiel's assessment of Israel's past and future.
Ezekiel's overview of Israel's history in the wilderness provides a basis for projecting a future in which Israel will be returned to the wilderness and purged.
In verses 1-2 the seventh year ... fifth month ... tenth day: August 14, 591 BCE.
In verses 3-4 God refuses to answer the elders and instead calls upon Ezekiel to judge the.
In verses 5-32 God rehearses the history of Israel's rebellion during the Exodus and Wilderness periods (see Ps 106).
In verses 5-6 I chose Israel: God uses royal language (see 2 Sam 6.21; 1 Kings 6.16) to prepare the reader for God's role as king (v. 33).
I am the LORD your God ... I would bring them out of the land of Egypt: see Ex 20.2.
In verses 7-8 apostasy in Egypt: Ex 14.10-12; Josh 24.14; Ps 106.7.
In verse 9 I acted for the sake of my name: a key issue in Ezekiel (20.14, 22; 36.22); compare Ex 15.3; 32.12).
In verses 11-12 the Sabbath is the foundational sign of the covenant (Ex 20.8-11; 31.12-17).
In verses 13-17 the rebellion of the first generation is the golden calf incident (Ex 32-34) and the reaction to the report of the spies (Num 13-14) in which Moses persuaded God not to destroy the entire people (Ex 33.12-33; Num 14.13-25).
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