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Verse Ezekiel 14:21. _MY FOUR SORE JUDGMENTS_] SWORD, _war_. FAMINE,
occasioned by _drought_. PESTILENCE, epidemic diseases which sweep off
a great part of the inhabitants of a land. The NOISOME BEAST...
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Jeremiah 14; Jeremiah 15 is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy.
Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver to the exiles
the same message which Jeremiah conveys to the inhabitants of J...
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Ezekiel 14:1. These inquiring elders, with wickedness in their hearts,
give another illustration of the depth of degradation in which the
people had sunk. He who searches the hearts knew what was in t...
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THE RIGHTEOUS CANNOT SAVE THE CITY, BUT ONLY THEMSELVES. In spite of
all Ezekiel's visions and warnings, the people still cherish the
illusion that Jerusalem will be spared if for no other reason, at...
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HOW MUCH MORE, &c. National judgments are thus sent for national sins.
Compare Ezekiel 14:13....
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The presence of righteous men among a sinful people will not save the
sinners
The passage may be in answer to thoughts which the prophet felt might
rise in the minds of those to whom he spoke. He thr...
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_How much more_ If when a single judgment is sent upon a land the
wicked shall not be spared for the sake of the righteous, how much
more shall this not happen when the wickedness of the land is so gr...
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B. Presence of Righteous Men 14:12-23
TRANSLATION
(12) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (13) Son of man,
when a land sins against Me by trespassing grievously, and I stretch
out My hand...
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If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil
it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of
the beasts:
The argument is cumulative. He first puts the case...
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A DIVINE PRINCIPLE AND AN APPARENT EXCEPTION
As a rule when God punishes a land for its wickedness by such
judgments as famine, wild beasts, sword, or pestilence, the presence
in it of the most eminen...
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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 14
WICKED LEADERS – EZEKIEL 14:1-23
V1 Some of *Is
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MY FOUR SORE JUDGMENTS. — The teaching of the preceding eight verses
is here gathered up into its climax. In the case of any one of the
four punishments mentioned in succession, the presence of the ho...
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כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֗ה
אַ֣ף כִּֽ
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Certain of the elders of Israel now came to Ezekiel, evidently to hear
what message he had to deliver to them. The word of the Lord revealed
to him that whatever their outward attitude might be, they...
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We have no difficulty in explaining sin as the cause of sorrow. The
four sore judgments of God, famine, the sword, wild beasts, and
pestilence, are among the rods by which guilty nations, in all ages,...
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He now reasons, as we said in the beginning, from the less to the
greater. Hitherto he has said, If I shall have sent forth only one
weapon to take vengeance upon men, no one will oppose my following...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
Chapter 13 judges the prophets who deceived the people in Jerusalem by
their pretended visions of peace. In chapter 14 the elders of Israel
come an...
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FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, HOW MUCH MORE,.... If the Lord would not
be entreated by such good men as those mentioned, for a land that had
sinned against him, to whom he only sends some one of the ab...
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_If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land_ We find it was
one punishment of the inhabitants of Judea, to be infested by lions
and other wild beasts. To this their neighbourhood to the desert...
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God's Irrevocable Sentence...
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For thus saith the Lord God, How much more when I send my four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the four principal scourges of His wrath,
THE SWORD, AND THE FAMINE, AND THE NOISOME BEAST, AND THE PESTIL...
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HOW:
Or, also when...
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12-23 National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape
one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing
people rebel against him, they may justly expect all his judgments...
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Those three men, with their best interest, should not be able to keep
off one of the four, much less able to keep off all four when I
commission them all to go at once, as I will, nay, have done, agai...
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Ezekiel 14:21 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 send H7971 (H8765)
four H702 severe H7451 judgments...
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‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh, “How much more when I send my four
sore judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the
dangerous wild beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the elders of Israel. Jerusalem on no account to
be spared.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Noah, Job, Daniel.
CONCLUSION: Many who have no idols in their sanctuary have idols in
their...
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Ezekiel 14:1. _Then came certain of the elders of Israel,_ ex-judges
and magistrates in Judea. They were all idolaters, yet they wished to
know whether there were any hope of their return to Jerusalem...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 14:12 Five distinct paragraphs make up this
oracle. The first four describe four forms of divine judgment on
Jerusalem: famine (vv. Ezekiel 14:12); beasts (vv....
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JUDAH AND JERUSALEM CANNOT CLAIM EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENTS BECAUSE OF
THE RIGHTEOUS FEW THEREIN (Ezekiel 14:12)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 14:12. “WHEN THE LAND SINNETH AGAINST
ME BY TRESPASSING GRIEVO...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 14:1
As the result, probably, of the previous utterances, certain ELDERS OF
ISRAEL, _i_._e_. of the exiles in Tel-Abib, came to consult Ezekiel,
wishing to know what counsels or wh...
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CHAPTER 14.
HYPOCRITICAL INQUIRERS AFTER GOD THEIR WICKEDNESS DISCOVERED AND
REBUKED.
Ezekiel 14:1. _And there came to me some of the elders of Israel and
sat before me._
Ezekiel 14:2. _And the wor...
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Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men
have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling...
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Amos 4:6; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:15; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 14:19
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How much more — If they could not be able to keep off one of the
four, how much less would they be able to keep off all four, when I
commission them all to go at once....