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Verse Ezekiel 22:18. _THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS TO ME BECOME DROSS_] They
are all like _base metal-brass, tin, iron_, and _lead_ alloyed
together with _silver_. Ye must be put in the furnace, and subject...
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The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the
people shall be tried and purged.
Ezekiel 22:18
DROSS - A frequent metaphor which denotes not only the corruption of
the people, who...
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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...
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BRASS. copper, or bronze,
FURNACE: or crucible.
DROSS. Lead put into the crucible with gold or silver causes the baser
metals to retire, or form _scoriae_ or dross at the sides of the
crucible, leav...
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Judgment on Israel under the figure of a smelting furnace. Israel is
dross and base metal, which must be flung into the furnace....
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_dross_of _silver_ In construction "silver" is in apposition with
dross. For the figure cf. Isaiah 1:22; Isaiah 48:10; Jeremiah 6:28-30;
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THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, &C.— _The house of Israel is to me become all
of them alloy; brass, and tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of the
furnace: alloy of silver are they._ Ezekiel 22:19. _Because ye...
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B. The Smelting Furnace 22:17-22
TRANSLATION
(17) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son of man,
the house of Israel has become to Me dross; all of them are bronze and
tin and iron a...
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Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are
brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they
are even the dross of silver.
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS TO ME...
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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...
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DROSS] the baser metals from which silver has to be purified.
19-22. Jerusalem will be heated like a furnace for smelting silver,
and all that it contains will be melted in the fire of God's wrath.
Th...
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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 22
* God told Ezekiel to declare judgement against Jerusale...
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BECOME DROSS. — The second prophecy (Ezekiel 22:17) is occupied with
a figure taken from the refining of silver, which is a favourite one
with the prophets (see Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 6:29;...
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בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם הָיוּ ־לִ֥י בֵֽית
־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל _לְ_†
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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...
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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...
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Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become (k) dross: all they
[are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace;
they are [even] the dross of silver.
(k) Which before was mo...
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_Dross. Hebrew, "a mixture." Septuagint, "God will purify the silver,"
Isaias iv. 4._...
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The figure here is very striking of dross, the refuse of the coarser
metals, brass, iron, lead, and tin; whereas Jerusalem in her holy days
had been of the purest gold. The very streets were full of s...
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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...
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SON OF MAN, THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS TO ME BECOME DROSS,.... Vile,
despicable, useless, and unprofitable; to which the wicked of the
earth are compared, Psalms 119:119 and here the Lord's professing
peo...
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Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are]
brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they
are [even] the dross of silver.
Ver. 18. _The house of Isra...
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_The house of Israel is to me become dross_ “Their filthiness may be
fitly compared to the mixture of dross and baser metals with the pure
silver: and as that is purified by being melted in a furnace...
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THE CORRUPTION OF JUDAH INVITING DESTRUCTION...
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Son of man, the house of Israel is to Me become dross, the refuse of
the purer metals, thrown out as unfit for fine use; ALL THEY ARE
BRASS, AND TIN, AND IRON, AND LEAD IN THE MIDST OF THE FURNACE, al...
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DROSS:
_ Heb._ drosses...
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17-22 Israel, compared with other nations, had been as the gold and
silver compared with baser metals. But they were now as the refuse
that is consumed in the furnace, or thrown away when the silver...
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Not a few among many, but universally the whole house of Israel, the
seed of him that was a prince with God, the covenant people of God,
are strangely degenerate and corrupted, as if purer and richer...
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THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WHO ARE FULL OF IMPURITY.
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, the house
of Israel is become dross to me, all of them are brass and tin and
iron and lead in the...
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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...
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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...
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_Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross._
SIN’S DETERIORATING POWER
Stand in fancy in one of the fights of the old civil war. The
Royalists are fighting desperately, and are winning ap...
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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...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 22:17 The metaphor of melting is found
elsewhere in the OT (see Isaiah 48:10 and Jeremiah
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(Ezekiel 22:17.)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Jerusalem besieged by her enemies is the furnace
in which God will refine His people Israel.
Ezekiel 22:17. “THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME.” “This second
word o...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 22:1, EZEKIEL 22:2
MOREOVER, etc. The word connects what follows with THE WORD OF THE
LORD which began in Ezekiel
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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...
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Ezekiel 22:20; Isaiah 1:22; Isaiah 31:9; Isaiah 48:10; Isaiah 48:4;...
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Dross — Utterly degenerate, and base metal. The furnace — The
afflictions I have laid upon them have not bettered them. The dross
— While they loved mercy, did justly, walked humbly with their God,
th...