Ezekiel 22:22

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 Jehovah complains that his casting Israel into the furnace had been barren of result, Isaiah 48:10.

Ezekiel 22:23. New indictment of all classes of the nation: the royal house, Ezekiel 22:25; the priests, Ezekiel 22:26; the princes, Ezekiel 22:27; the prophets, Ezekiel 22:28, and the people of the land, Ezekiel 22:29. Among all the people not one is found to stand in the breach, therefore his wrath must be poured out upon them to the uttermost.