Another argument to persuade to conversion, taken from the gracious nature of God, who taketh pleasure in the return of a sinner; for that is the meaning of the words: sinners displease God when they undo themselves, they please him when they return. Turn yourselves; do what you can, leave what sins you have loved. Live ye; it is a promise.
Verse Ezekiel 18:32. _FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE_] God repeats what he had so solemnly declared before. Can ye doubt his sincerity? his ability? his willingness? the efficacy of the blood of his covenant?...
Ezekiel 18:1. In Ezekiel 18:1, we find the false accusation against God and the divine answer, and this is followed in Ezekiel 18:5 by the conditions of life, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” ...
I HAVE NO PLEASURE. This is the answer to the question in Ezekiel 18:23....
The appeal to turn from evil sustained by reference to the prevailing nature of God. He is the God of salvation; his will is that men should live. The A.V. marg. to "turn yourselves (cf. Ezekiel 18:30...
Exhortation to repentance founded on the principle that God will deal with every man according to the condition in which he is found....
B. The Potential of Personal Repentance 18:21-32 TRANSLATION (21) But if the wicked one turns from all his sins which he has done, and keeps all My statutes, and deals justly and righteously, he shal...
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. THE...
GOD'S EQUITY VINDICATED The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure of t...
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 18 * In this chapter, the *Lord explains that each person...
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א אֶחְפֹּץ֙ בְּ מֹ֣ות הַ מֵּ֔ת
THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retribution. The na...
THE REVERSAL OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENT Ezekiel 18:14-32 The Jews of Ezekiel's day asserted that God's dealings with their nation were not just, because they were suffering, not for their own sins, but f...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's te...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us both pause over this solemn chapter, and ponder well the contents of it, looking up to God the Holy Ghost, with an humble eye of supplication, that He will be our teacher....
Here, in conclusion, is a most striking and just appeal from the Lord, followed up with the strongest assurance of mercy. But here again, as before, the expression concerning the Lord's pleasure in th...
We see, therefore, how God throws off that false reproach from himself with which the children of Israel taunted him, saying, that they perished by his immoderate rigor, and could find no reason for h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF HIM THAT DIETH,.... Which is not to be interpreted simply and absolutely, and with respect to all persons afflicted and punished by him; for he does take delight...
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye. Ver. 32. _For I have no pleasure._] See on Ezekiel 18:23; Ezekiel 33:11 ....
God's Merciful call to Repentance...
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, a victim of perdition by his own fault, SAITH THE LORD GOD; WHEREFORE TURN YOURSELVES AND LIVE YE. Every sinner is a victim of spiritual death, a...
YOURSELVES: Or, others...
30-32 The Lord will judge each of the Israelites according to his ways. On this is grounded an exhortation to repent, and to make them a new heart and a new spirit. God does not command what cannot be...
Ezekiel 18:32 pleasure H2654 (H8799) death H4194 dies H4191 (H8801) says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 GOD...
“Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, Oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the d...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for Israel in captivity. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: He who makes conscience of conforming in everything to the will of God, who makes it his business to serv...
Ezekiel 18:2. _The fathers have eaten sour_ (unripe) _grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge._ Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam, on...
_Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin._ PRESERVATIVE FROM RUIN I. The assumption of an awful fact. Iniquity induces ruin. The term “ruin” occur...
_I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth._ THE MERCY OF GOD I. The benevolence of God’s own character. He who is love, and who delights therefore only in happiness, being at the same time...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:1 God holds each generation accountable for its own sins. ⇐ ⇔...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 18:30 Repentance is not being urged on Jerusalem, for the preceding chapters affirm that its destruction is assured. Rather, the exiles are pressed to repent and take responsib...
(Ezekiel 18:27.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 18:29. “Are not your ways unequal?” “They asserted (Ezekiel 18:25) that the ways of God were not right—properly, not weighed in the balance of righteousness...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 18:1, EZEKIEL 18:2 WHAT MEAN YE, THAT YE USE THIS PROVERB, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel had heard from the l...
CHAPTER 18. THE RETRIBUTIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. Ezekiel 18:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 18:2. _Why do ye use this proverb upon the land of Israel, saying, The fathers...
Now there are instructions for those who have been taken to Babylon, and Ezekiel now turns and speaks to them. The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, What mean ye, that you use this proverb conce...
2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 18:23; Ezekiel 18:30; Lamentations 3:33...
I have no pleasure — Sinners displease God when they undo themselves; they please him when they return....
Does God rejoice over the sinner’s doom? PROBLEM: According to this verse, God declares, “I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies [in his sins].” Yet in Proverbs 1:26, God declares to the sin...