Ezekiel 7:19

Amidst the famine they cast their silver and gold away in the streets, it cannot procure them food. On the horrors of famine during the siege of Jerusalem, comp. Lamentations 4:4; Lamentations 4:8-10; Lamentations 2:11-12; Lamentations 2:19-20; Lamentations 1:11.

gold shall be removed Rather: shall be a thing unclean, lit. uncleanness. The term refers properly to female impurity, and is the strongest expression for "object of abhorrence;" cf. ch. Ezekiel 36:17, where the people's idolatries are in Jehovah's eyes as a woman's impurity. Leviticus 20:21.

is the stumblingblock hath been. Their gold and silver has been to them something on which they have stumbled and fallen, i.e. a cause of their sinning; cf. ch. Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 44:12.