Ezekiel 22:10

In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. IN THEE HAVE THEY HUMBLED HER THAT WAS SET APART FOR POLLUTION - i:e., set apart as unclean ()....

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, disobedience to parents, oppression and extortion, profanation of the sabbath and holy things, seventh commandment sins, lewdness and adultery. Unmindfulness of God was at the bottom of all this wickedness. Sinners provoke God because they forget him. Jerusalem has filled the measure of her sins. Those who give up themselves to be ruled by their lusts, will justly be given up to be portioned by them. Those who resolve to be their own masters, let them expect no other happiness than their own hands can furnish; and a miserable portion it will prove....

Verse Ezekiel 22:10. _IN THEE HAVE THEY DISCOVERED_] They are guilty of the most abominable _incest_ and unnatural lust. _IN THEE HAVE THEY HUMBLED_] In their unholy and unnatural connexions, they have not abstained from those set apart because of their infirmities. The catalogue of crimes that follow is too plain to require comment....

SET APART FOR POLLUTION - Or, “unclean by reason of impurity” Leviticus 12:2....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 22:1, EZEKIEL 22:2 MOREOVER, etc. The word connects what follows with THE WORD OF THE LORD which began in Ezekiel 20:2. That connection is, indeed, sufficiently indicated by the recurrence of the formula, "Wilt thou judge?" (see note on Ezekiel 20:4). In obedience to the commands which that question implied, Ezekiel has once more to go through the catalogue of the sins of Judah and Jerusalem. It is not without significance that he applies the very epithet of BLOODY CITY (Hebrew, _city of bloods_

IN THEE HAVE THEY DISCOVERED THEIR FATHER'S NAKEDNESS,.... Or, "he discovered" b, or "uncovered", it being in the singular number; though the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read in the plural; this, though committed, was done but by a few; it being a sin not so much as named among men, as for a man to lie with his father's wife, 1 Corinthians 5:1 as Reuben did, Genesis 35:22 and which is expressly forbidden; and is mentioned first as the capital sin of uncleanness, Leviticus 18:6: IN THEE HAVE THEY HUMBLED HER THAT WAS SET APART FOR POLLUTION; ravished and deflowered such women who had their menstrues; to lie with such was prohibited by the law

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 prophets, priests, and princes, as well as of the people. The violence and abomination of Jerusalem are revealed in Ezekiel 22:1; the smelting furnace in Ezekiel 22:17 is the symbol of Jehovah's fiery indignation against Jerusalem and its inhabitants. The corruption of the prophets, priests, and princes is fully uncovered in the closing section of chapter 22 ...

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.). This chapter details those sins, and deals with the present as Ezekiel 22:20 had dealt with the past, incidentally letting us see what Ezekiel means by sin. EZEKIEL 22:1. THE SIN. The evils denounced are largely social wrongs (_cf._ ch. 18), but it is significant that the low morality is traced to false religion idolatry (Ezekiel 22:3 f.) and forgetfulness of God ...

DISCOVERED, &c. Ref to Pent, (Leviticus 18:7; Leviticus 18:8; Leviticus 18:9; Leviticus 20:11; Leviticus 20:17), App-92. SET APART, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 18:13). App-92....

Leviticus 18:7; Leviticus 20:11, defiled their father's wife, i.e. their stepmother, or some of their father's concubines; cf. 2 Samuel 16:22. _set apart for pollution_ UNCLEAN FROM HER IMPURITY, ch. Ezekiel 18:6; Leviticus 18:19; Leviticus 20:18....