Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 22:4
Verse Ezekiel 22:4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood] Thou art guilty of blood.
Verse Ezekiel 22:4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood] Thou art guilty of blood.
THY DAYS, - i. e., of judgment; “thy years,” i. e., of visitation (compare Ezekiel 20:25, Ezekiel 20:39). A REPROACH ... A MOCKING - Judah shall be like the Ammonites...
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...
EZEKIEL 22. THE SINS OF THE CLASSES AND THE MASSES. The doom which has just been described in such fiercely vivid terms contains only one allusion to the sins which justified it (Ezekiel 21:23 f.). Th...
DAYS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the judgment inflicted in them. COME EVEN UNTO. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hast entered the time of"....
The "blood" is not only that of her children sacrificed to the idols, but judicial and other murders, cf. Ezekiel 22:6_; Ezekiel 22:9_. Cf. Ezekiel 23:37;...
THOU HAST CAUSED THY DAYS TO DRAW NEAR— "Thou hast advanced the time of thy punishment, by heaping up the measure of thine iniquities." Instead of _Thou art become guilty in thy blood,_ at the beginni...
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE DEFILEMENT OF ISRAEL 22:1-24:27 Chapter s 22-24 form the conclusion of a lengthy section of the Book of Ezekiel which began back in chapter 12. In these Chapter s Ezekiel has been...
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: th...
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...
THY DAYS... THY YEARS. — Viz., of judgment and visitation. The Rabbinical commentators interpret the _days_ of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the _years_ of the captivity in Babylon. A MOCKING TO A...
בְּ דָמֵ֨ךְ אֲשֶׁר ־שָׁפַ֜כְתְּ אָשַׁ֗מְתְּ וּ...
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 opening of this chapter, in the words of the Lord, is put into the form of a question, not only of judging, but it seems as if the Lord condescended to ask His servant, whether he had ought to say...
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...
THOU ART BECOME GUILTY IN THY BLOOD THAT THOU HAST SHED,.... Not only she contracted guilt by the innocent blood she shed, but she was tried and found guilty; her guilt was notorious, plain, and evide...
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come [even] unto thy years: t...
_Wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Wilt thou plead_ for it? Or rather, _Wilt thou not judge?_ see note on Ezekiel 20:4. The expression is doubled to awaken the prophet more fully, and...
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, which placed the stamp of murder upon the entire city, AND HAST DEFILED THYSELF IN THINE IDOLS WHICH THOU HAST MADE, the one growing forth out...
THE WEIGHT OF JERUSALEM'S GUILT...
1-16 The prophet is to judge the bloody city; the city of bloods. Jerusalem is so called, because of her crimes. The sins which Jerusalem stands charged with, are exceeding sinful. Murder, idolatry,...
GUILTY IN THY BLOOD; greatly or deeply guilty. THOU HAS SHED, in abundance, cruelly and perfidiously. DEFILED THY SELF; as a polluted thing, loathsome to be seen or touched THINE IDOLS; dunghill gods....
Ezekiel 22:4 guilty H816 (H8804) blood H1818 shed H8210 (H8804) defiled H2930 (H8804) idols H1544 made...
‘And you will say, “Thus says the Lord Yahweh, A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her. You are become guilty in your bl...
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...
THE SINS OF JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL: THE GENERAL CORRUPTION OF PROPHETS, PRIESTS, PRINCES, AND PEOPLE (Chap. 22) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—We have here another description of the sins of Jerusalem and Israel; a...
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...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; 2 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Kings 21:16;...
Thy days — The days of thy sorrows, and punishment. Art come — Thou art grown up to the eldest years in sin, beyond which thou art not to go....