Into the midst of Jerusalem. — Jerusalem is represented as the refining pot into which the people were to be cast, because this was at once their national centre, and also the centre of the war by which they were carried into captivity.
Verse Ezekiel 22:19. _I WILL GATHER YOU_] Jerusalem is represented here as the _fining pot_; all the people are to be gathered together in _it_, and the _Chaldean fire_ is to _melt_ the whole. And Go...
The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the people shall be tried and purged. Ezekiel 22:18 DROSS - A frequent metaphor which denotes not only the corruption of the people, who...
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...
_midst of Jerusalem_ Cf. ch. 24....
Judgment on Israel under the figure of a smelting furnace. Israel is dross and base metal, which must be flung into the furnace....
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, &C.— _The house of Israel is to me become all of them alloy; brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: alloy of silver are they._ Ezekiel 22:19. _Because ye...
B. The Smelting Furnace 22:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man, the house of Israel has become to Me dross; all of them are bronze and tin and iron a...
_THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BECAUSE YE ARE ALL BECOME DROSS, BEHOLD, THEREFORE I WILL GATHER YOU INTO THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה יַ֛עַן ה
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 figure here is very striking of dross, the refuse of the coarser metals, brass, iron, lead, and tin; whereas Jerusalem in her holy days had been of the purest gold. The very streets were full of s...
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...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BECAUSE YE ARE ALL BECOME DROSS,.... King, princes, nobles, prophets, priests, as well as the common people; the apostasy was general, in city and country; scarcely...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem._ Ver. 19. _I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem._] _Velu...
_The house of Israel is to me become dross_ “Their filthiness may be fitly compared to the mixture of dross and baser metals with the pure silver: and as that is purified by being melted in a furnace...
THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Because ye are all become dross, impure with idolatry and other wickedness, BEHOLD, THEREFORE I WILL GATHER YOU INTO THE MIDST OF JERUSALEM, heaped together like qu...
17-22 Israel, compared with other nations, had been as the gold and silver compared with baser metals. But they were now as the refuse that is consumed in the furnace, or thrown away when the silver...
YE ARE ALL, from one end of the land to the other. I WILL GATHER YOU; from all parts thereof I will by a secret overruling providence bring you together into Jerusalem, as into a furnace where you may...
Ezekiel 22:19 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 dross H5509 gather H6908 (H8802) midst H8432 Jerusalem...
“Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you are all become dross, behold therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem, as they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into t...
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 22:17 The metaphor of melting is found elsewhere in the OT (see Isaiah 48:10 and Jeremiah
(Ezekiel 22:17.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Jerusalem besieged by her enemies is the furnace in which God will refine His people Israel. Ezekiel 22:17. “THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME.” “This second word o...
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 11:7; Ezekiel 24:3; Micah 4:12; Matthew 13:30; Matthew 13:40
Gather you — From all parts. I will, by a secret over — ruling providence, bring you into Jerusalem, as into a furnace, where you may be consumed....