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 describes this behavior in detail (vv. Ezekiel 22:1); the second uses the metaphor of melting for ridding Jerusalem of its impurities (vv. Ezekiel 22:17); the third surveys the city’s inhabitants. None of the oracles provides any reason for preventing the city’s destruction (vv. Ezekiel 22:23).

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