Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land, — i.e., the common people, not belonging to any of the above classes. In regard to their general corruption see Ezekiel 18
The people of the land, — i.e., the common people, not belonging to any of the above classes. In regard to their general corruption see Ezekiel 18
Verse Ezekiel 22:29. _THE PEOPLE_] All that have power or authority have abused it; _vexed_ and _oppressed_ the _poor_, the _needy_, and the _stranger_....
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 VEXED... HAVE OPPRESSED, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Leviticus 19:33, etc.) App-92. POOR. Heb: ani. See note on...
_people of the land_ The phrase for the common people already, Jeremiah 37:2, and common in Ezekiel 7:27; Ezekiel 12:19, &c. The "people of the land" is certainly subject here, cf....
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)...
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND HAVE USED OPPRESSION...
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...
עַ֤ם הָ אָ֨רֶץ֙ עָ֣שְׁקוּ עֹ֔שֶׁק וְ גָזְל֖וּ
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...
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND HAVE USED OPPRESSION,.... The common people, the more powerful among them, such as were in greatest authority in cities and towns, in neighbourhoods and families, the richest am...
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. Ver. 29. _The people of the land have used opp...
_The people of the land_ The common people; _have used oppression_ Have wronged each other by acts of fraud and violence, and have greatly and cruelly oppressed each other. _And have vexed the poor an...
The people of the land, following the bad example of their leaders, HAVE USED OPPRESSION, practicing extortion and violence in every form, AND EXERCISED ROBBERY, either open or hidden, and have vexed...
THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
OPPRESSION: Or, deceit WRONGFULLY: _ Heb._ without right...
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....
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, the common people, have used oppression; greatly, continuedly, and cruelly oppressed one another, wronged each other by frauds and violence. EXERCISED ROBBERY; on every occasio...
Ezekiel 22:29 people H5971 land H776 oppressions H6231 (H8804) H6233 committed H1497 (H8804) robbery H1498 mistrea
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...
Amos 3:10; Exodus 22:21; Exodus 23:9; Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 22:7;...