Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 22:8
Verse Ezekiel 22:8. Thou hast despised] All my ordinances are not only neglected, but treated with contempt; and my Sabbaths profaned. There is not only no power of godliness among you, but there is no form.
Verse Ezekiel 22:8. Thou hast despised] All my ordinances are not only neglected, but treated with contempt; and my Sabbaths profaned. There is not only no power of godliness among you, but there is no form.
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...
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:6. PROFANED MY SABBATHS, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:30)....
_Thou hast despised_ Jerusalem or the community is addressed, cf. Ezekiel 22:26, ch. Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:16, &c....
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 HAST DESPISED MINE HOLY THINGS, AND HAST PROFANED MY SABBATHS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
קָדָשַׁ֖י בָּזִ֑ית וְ אֶת ־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י חִלָּֽלְתְּ׃...
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...
_Sabbaths, by servile works, and by their sinful deportment._...
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 HAST DESPISED MINE HOLY THINGS,.... The holy place, the temple, and the worship of it; holy persons, the priests that officiated there; holy sacrifices offered up by them; the holy word of God re...
_Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths._ Ver. 8. _Thou hast despised mine holy things._] These are all foretokens of a perishing people. _Emphasin habet quod dicit sancta...
_Behold, the princes of Israel_, &c. Probably the members of the great sanhedrim, or the king's counsellors and chief officers, are here intended; _every one in thee_ Not one to be found of a more mer...
THE WEIGHT OF JERUSALEM'S GUILT...
Thou hast despised Mine holy things, treating matters of which the Lord thought highly, which He had set apart to be revered properly, with contempt, AND HAST PROFANED MY SABBATHS, by refusing to hall...
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,...
THOU, all the land, or thou, O Jerusalem, or thou, O Zedekiah, the chief of the princes; or else, having spoken of them all in the plural, he now changeth number, and so speaks to each in particular....
Ezekiel 22:8 despised H959 (H8804) things H6944 profaned H2490 (H8765) Sabbaths H7676 Ezekie
“Behold the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. In you have they treated dismissively the authority of father and mother. In the midst of you they have...
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 22:6 IN YOU, that is, in Jerusalem, all the sins on this long list occur. Every area of life is affected, for these sins violate God’s laws for the protection of worship, paren...
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...
Amos 8:4; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 20:24; Ezekiel 22:26
Thou — O Jerusalem. Mine holy things — All mine institutions, temple, sacrifices, feasts....