Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 22:27
Destroy souls — Ruin families; cutting off the fathers, and impoverishing the widow, and fatherless.
Destroy souls — Ruin families; cutting off the fathers, and impoverishing the widow, and fatherless.
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....
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...
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...
_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;...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְ קִרְבָּ֔הּ כִּ זְאֵבִ֖ים טֹ֣רְפֵי...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
Her princes in the midst thereof, the leaders and chief protectors of the people, ARE LIKE WOLVES RAVENING THE PREY, TO SHED BLOOD, AND TO DESTROY SOULS, TO GET DISHONEST GAIN, the civil rulers thus s...
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....
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...
Ezekiel 22:27 princes H8269 midst H7130 wolves H2061 tearing H2963 (H8802) prey H2964 shed H8210 (H8800) blood...
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...
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...
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...
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
(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.”...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 22:1, EZEKIEL 22:2 MOREOVER, etc. The word connects what follows with THE WORD OF THE LORD which began in Ezekiel
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...
Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 22:13; Ezekiel 22:6; Ezekiel 45:9; Hosea 7:1;...