Teks -- Ezekiel 20:22 (NET)

20:22 But I refrained from doing so, and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 20:22 - I withdrew

God seems to take the posture of one that was just going to smite, yet draws back that he might spare.

Clarke: Eze 20:22 - I withdrew mine hand

I withdrew mine hand - I had just lifted it up to crush them as in a moment; for they also were idolatrous, and walked in the steps of their fathers.

TSK: Eze 20:22 - I withdrew // wrought

I withdrew : Eze 20:17; Job 13:21; Psa 78:38; Lam 2:8

wrought : Eze 20:9, Eze 20:14, Eze 20:22; Psa 25:11, Psa 79:9, Psa 79:10, Psa 115:1; Isa 48:9-11; Jer 14:7, Jer 14:21; Dan 9:17, Dan 9:19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 20:22 - Nevertheless // Wrought

Nevertheless Heb. And . God seems to take to himself the posture of one that was just going to smite, yet draws back that he might spare, and act like his own infinite goodness, not suitable to the sin of this generation.

Wrought: this is explained Eze 20:9 .

Gill: Eze 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand // and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth

Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand,.... When it was stretched out against them, as in the above instance, and did not utterly consume them. The Targum is,

"and I turned away the stroke of my might:''

and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth. See Gill on Eze 20:9 and See Gill on Eze 20:14.