Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 22:28
Daubed them — Flattered them, in their ways of sin. Untempered mortar — With promises that like ill — tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems at present smooth and safe.
Daubed them — Flattered them, in their ways of sin. Untempered mortar — With promises that like ill — tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems at present smooth and safe.
Verse Ezekiel 22:28. _HER PROPHETS_] Even those who profess themselves to be my prophets, have been unfaithful in the discharge of their office; have _soothed_ the people in their sins, and pretended...
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...
_have daubed them_ daubed FOR THEM, seconding them. The persons called "princes" may be referred to, but not exclusively. Cf. ch. Ezekiel 13:10, and Ezekiel 13:6-7....
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)...
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. HER PROPHETS HAVE DAUBED THEM W...
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...
WITH UNTEMPERED MORTER. — See Note on Ezekiel 13:10. The prophets are here again spoken of in reference to their powerful influence upon the princes in leading them astray by falsehoods. “Seeing vanit...
וּ נְבִיאֶ֗יהָ טָח֤וּ לָהֶם֙ תָּפֵ֔ל חֹזִ֣ים...
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...
And her (p) prophets have daubed them with untempered [mortar], seeing vanity, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. (p) They who would have repro...
_Without. Septuagint, "they shall fall, seeing," &c._...
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...
AND HER PROPHETS HAVE DAUBED THEM WITH UNTEMPERED MORTAR,.... Palliated their sins, declared it to be right to shed the blood they did; and seize on the estates of men; but this, though it might for a...
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered [morter], seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken. Ver. 28. _And her prophets have...
_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...
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, Cf.Ezekiel 13:10, by flattering the people with false assurances of peace and safety, SEEING VANITY, unfounded promises of good, AND DIVINING...
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....
PROPHETS; false prophets. HAVE DAUBED THEM; flattered their oppressing bloody princes in their ways of sin and violence. WITH UNTEMPERED MORTAR; with promises and encouragements that, like ill tempere...
Ezekiel 22:28 prophets H5030 plastered H2902 (H8804) untempered H8602 seeing H2374 visions H7723 divining H7080 (H880
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 13:10; Ezekiel 13:22; Ezekiel 13:23; Ezekiel 13:6; Ezeki