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Verse Ezekiel 22:29. _THE PEOPLE_] All that have power or authority
have abused it; _vexed_ and _oppressed_ the _poor_, the _needy_, and
the _stranger_....
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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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HAVE VEXED... HAVE OPPRESSED, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus
22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33, etc.) App-92.
POOR. Heb: ani. See note on...
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_people of the land_ The phrase for the common people already,
Jeremiah 37:2, and common in Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 12:19, &c. The
"people of the land" is certainly subject here, cf....
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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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The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery,
and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the
stranger wrongfully.
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND HAVE USED OPPRESSION...
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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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THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, — _i.e._, the common people, not belonging
to any of the above classes. In regard to their general corruption see
Ezekiel 18...
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עַ֤ם הָ אָ֨רֶץ֙ עָ֣שְׁקוּ עֹ֔שֶׁק וְ
גָזְל֖וּ
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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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THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND HAVE USED OPPRESSION,.... The common people,
the more powerful among them, such as were in greatest authority in
cities and towns, in neighbourhoods and families, the richest am...
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_The people of the land_ The common people; _have used oppression_
Have wronged each other by acts of fraud and violence, and have
greatly and cruelly oppressed each other. _And have vexed the poor an...
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THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
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The people of the land, following the bad example of their leaders,
HAVE USED OPPRESSION, practicing extortion and violence in every form,
AND EXERCISED ROBBERY, either open or hidden, and have vexed...
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OPPRESSION:
Or, deceit
WRONGFULLY:
_ Heb._ without right...
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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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THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, the common people, have used oppression;
greatly, continuedly, and cruelly oppressed one another, wronged each
other by frauds and violence. EXERCISED ROBBERY; on every occasio...
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Ezekiel 22:29 people H5971 land H776 oppressions H6231 (H8804) H6233
committed H1497 (H8804) robbery H1498 mistrea
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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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Amos 3:10; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 22:7;...