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Ezekiel 22:23

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

From this verse to the end he shows the general corruption of all ranks.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people. Ezekiel 22:26 VIOLATED - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 22:1; Ezekiel 23:1. Before the sharpened sword of justice and retribution does its dreadful work, the Lord uncovers the guilt and vileness of the city and lays bare the corruption of her proph...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Corrupt Land 22:23-31 TRANSLATION (23) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (24) Son of man, say to her: You are a land not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation. (25)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ANOTHER INDICTMENT OF JERUSALEM The various religious and social evils that prevail in the city are recited (Ezekiel 22:1). Their coming punishment is then predicted, first in direct terms (Ezekiel 22...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 22 * God told Ezekiel to declare judgement against Jerusale...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י לֵ אמֹֽר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    FINAL ORACLES AGAINST JERUSALEM Ezekiel 22:1; Ezekiel 24:1 THE close of the first period of Ezekiel's work was marked by two dramatic incidents, which made the day memorable both in the private life...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next movement described the utter evil of the city. Its fundamental sins of bloodshed and idolatry were named and denounced, and the resultant evils were described. These consisted of the oppressi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The close of this chapter is uncommonly beautiful, if we read it with an eye to Jesus. Many had been the intercessors for perishing sinners in the earlier ages, and all of them were types of Christ. A...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Chapter 22 recapitulates the sin of Jerusalem, of her prophets, her priests, and her princes. The eye of God sought for some one to stand in the ga...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME,.... The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum: SAYING; as follows:...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 23. _And the word._] See Ezekiel 18:1 ....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-31 All orders and degrees of men had helped to fill the measure of the nation's guilt. The people that had any power abused it, and even the buyers and sellers find some way to oppress one another....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 22:23 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed nor rained on in the day of indignation.” ' Ezekiel now declares his third oracle. It concentra...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sins of Israel enumerated. Parable of the dross in the furnace. Sins of priests, prophets and people. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Whatever God's wrath inflicts upon a people, it...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 22:8. _Thou hast profaned my sabbaths,_ the sabbatical days and years. This is repeated in Ezekiel 23:38, to show that the desecration of holy things filled up the measure of Judah's sin: Ezek...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 22:1 This chapter includes three distinct but thematically related oracles. Each convicts Jerusalem of practicing vile impurities that God refuses to tolerate. The first descri...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 22:23 Here, rather than surveying types of behavior (as in vv. Ezekiel 22:6), Ezekiel surveys the people involved. The issue is still impurity (a l

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (Ezekiel 22:23.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The corrupt condition of all ranks of the people as the immediate cause of the destruction of the kingdom. Ezekiel 22:24. “THOU ART THE LAND THAT IS NOT CLEANSED.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 22:1, EZEKIEL 22:2 MOREOVER, etc. The word connects what follows with THE WORD OF THE LORD which began in Ezekiel

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, why would God do this? Chapter 22 he now tells us the things that were happening and the sins for which God's judgment was coming. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Now, thou so...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 22:23...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Her — The land of Israel. Not cleansed — Though God's judgments have been as violent floods; and as hottest fires. Nor rained upon — Yet neither thy filth hath been carried away, nor thy dross melted...

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