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Verse Ezekiel 22:27. _HER PRINCES_] Are as bad as her _priests_; they
are rapacious, and grievously oppress the people by unjust impositions
in order to increase their revenues....
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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...
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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...
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_Her princes_ The "princes" here are the chiefs or leaders of the
people, cf. Jeremiah 26:10; Jeremiah 36:12.
_get dishonest gain_ Cf. Jeremiah 6:13;...
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TO GET DISHONEST GAIN— For greediness of lucre.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, Jerusalem, the bloody city, is here brought to the
bar, to be convicted and condemned: and the prophet is constituted of
God both her...
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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)...
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Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey,
to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
HER PRINCES ... ARE LIKE WOLVES RAVENING THE PREY - her princes, who...
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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...
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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...
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HER PRINCES. — These are not only the kings, but also the nobles and
those in authority at court — in other words, the ruling class.
Their injustice and violence is a constant theme for prophetic rebu...
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שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְ קִרְבָּ֔הּ כִּ זְאֵבִ֖ים
טֹ֣רְפֵי...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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HER PRINCES IN THE MIDST THEREOF ARE LIKE WOLVES RAVENING THE
PREY,.... The king and his nobles, those of the first rank and
quality, who ought to have protected the persons and property of the
meaner...
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_Her princes in the midst thereof [are] like wolves ravening the prey,
to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain._
Ver. 27. _Her princes in the midst thereof._] _Lupis ferociores e...
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_Her princes are like wolves_ The chief officers of state stick at no
method of injustice and oppression whereby they may increase their
substance, though it be by taking away the lives and estates of...
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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....
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HER PRINCES, as before, EZEKIEL 22:25,26. Princes; rulers of all
sorts, who should have crushed oppressors and defended the oppressed.
Wolves; creatures greedy, bloody, and crafty, resembling dogs tha...
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Ezekiel 22:27 princes H8269 midst H7130 wolves H2061 tearing H2963
(H8802) prey H2964 shed H8210 (H8800) blood...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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(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.”...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 22:1, EZEKIEL 22:2
MOREOVER, etc. The word connects what follows with THE WORD OF THE
LORD which began in Ezekiel
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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...
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Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 22:13; Ezekiel 22:6; Ezekiel 45:9; Hosea 7:1;...
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Destroy souls — Ruin families; cutting off the fathers, and
impoverishing the widow, and fatherless....