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The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the
people shall be tried and purged.
Ezekiel 22:18
DROSS - A frequent metaphor which denotes not only the corruption of
the people, who...
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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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The figure of the furnace expresses mainly the idea of the terrible
trials approaching; it is not intimated that pure silver was obtained
from the process. In a prophet toward the end of the exile Jeh...
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Judgment on Israel under the figure of a smelting furnace. Israel is
dross and base metal, which must be flung into the furnace....
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B. The Smelting Furnace 22:17-22
TRANSLATION
(17) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man,
the house of Israel has become to Me dross; all of them are bronze and
tin and iron a...
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_THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BECAUSE YE ARE ALL BECOME DROSS,
BEHOLD, THEREFORE I WILL GATHER YOU INTO THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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כְּ הִתּ֥וּךְ כֶּ֨סֶף֙ בְּ תֹ֣וךְ
כּ֔וּר כֵּ֖
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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 figure here is very striking of dross, the refuse of the coarser
metals, brass, iron, lead, and tin; whereas Jerusalem in her holy days
had been of the purest gold. The very streets were full of s...
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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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AS SILVER IS MELTED IN THE FURNACE, SO SHALL YE BE MELTED IN THE MIDST
THEREOF,.... This is repeated for the greater confirmation of it; and
the people might assure themselves that it would verily be,...
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_The house of Israel is to me become dross_ “Their filthiness may be
fitly compared to the mixture of dross and baser metals with the pure
silver: and as that is purified by being melted in a furnace...
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THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
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As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted
in the midst thereof, Judah experiencing this operation during the
last siege of the city; AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I, THE LORD, HA...
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17-22 Israel, compared with other nations, had been as the gold and
silver compared with baser metals. But they were now as the refuse
that is consumed in the furnace, or thrown away when the silver...
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These verses are an ingeminating of the same menaces, the more to
affect the Jews with fear, and due apprehensions of their danger, and
make them think of returning to God. AS SILVER IS MELTED: this s...
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Ezekiel 22:22 silver H3701 melted H2046 midst H8432 furnace H3564
melted H5413 (H8714) midst H8432 know H3045 ...
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“Yes, I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath,
and you will be melted in its midst. As silver is melted in the midst
of the furnace, so will you be melted in its midst. And you wil...
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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 22:17 The metaphor of melting is found
elsewhere in the OT (see Isaiah 48:10 and Jeremiah
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(Ezekiel 22:17.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Jerusalem besieged by her enemies is the furnace
in which God will refine His people Israel.
Ezekiel 22:17. “THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME.” “This second
word o...
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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 20:33; Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 22:16; Ezekiel 22:31; Hosea 5:10