Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
pass under the rod—metaphor from a shepherd who makes his sheep pass under his rod in counting them (Leviticus 27:32; Jeremiah 33:13). Whether you will or not, ye shall be counted as Mine, and so shall be subjected to My chastening discipline (Micah 7:14), with a view to My ultimate saving of the chosen remnant (compare John 10:27-29).
bond of . . . covenant—I will constrain you by sore chastisements to submit yourselves to the covenant to which ye are lastingly bound, though now you have cast away God's bond from you. Fulfilled in part, Nehemiah 9:8, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:32-38; Neh. 10:1-39; fully hereafter (Isaiah 54:10-13; Isaiah 52:1-2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ezekiel 20:37:
Ezekiel 4:5
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