Ezekiel 22 - Introduction
_A CATALOGUE OF SINS IN JERUSALEM. GOD WILL BURN THEM AS DROSS IN HIS FURNACE. THE GENERAL CORRUPTION OF PROPHETS, PRIESTS, PRINCES, AND PEOPLE._ _Before Christ 592._... [ Continue Reading ]
_A CATALOGUE OF SINS IN JERUSALEM. GOD WILL BURN THEM AS DROSS IN HIS FURNACE. THE GENERAL CORRUPTION OF PROPHETS, PRIESTS, PRINCES, AND PEOPLE._ _Before Christ 592._... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT THOU JUDGE? &C.— _Wilt thou not judge, wilt thou not judge?_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST CAUSED THY DAYS TO DRAW NEAR— "Thou hast advanced the time of thy punishment, by heaping up the measure of thine iniquities." Instead of _Thou art become guilty in thy blood,_ at the beginning of this verse, Houbigant reads, _Thou art become obnoxious to the blood which thou hast shed,_ &c... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH ART INFAMOUS, &C.— _Infamous of character, mighty in broils. Ezekiel 22:6. Every one were in thee,_ &c.] _Every one to their power have joined with,_ or _helped thee to shed blood._... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THEE ARE MEN THAT CARRY TALES, &C.— "Who beat false witness against men in capital cases." Houbigant reads, _Thy men are perfidious, that they may shed blood._ The reader, for the best exposition of this chapter, will refer to the 18th.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREEDILY GAINED OF— _Made a gain of._... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SMITTEN MINE HAND— That is to say, either as an expression of indignation, or in testimony of my horror at their crimes and cruelties. See chap. Ezekiel 21:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WILL COME THY FILTHINESS, &C.— _And I will bring the fame of thy filthiness whither thou hopedst not:_ Ezekiel 22:16. _And thou shalt be profaned,_ or _defiled by it, in the sight of the heathen, who shall know,_ &c. Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 are all run into alloy, therefore, behold, I will amass you together in the midst of Jerusalem._ Eze... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU ART THE LAND, &C.— _This land shall not have showers, nor be softened with rain, in the day of indignation._ Ezekiel 22:25. _Because her prophets in the midst of her are like,_ &c. Houbigant, after the LXX; who observes, that dryness and sterility, not uncleanness, are the subject of this verse... [ Continue Reading ]
TO GET DISHONEST GAIN— For greediness of lucre. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Jerusalem, the bloody city, is here brought to the bar, to be convicted and condemned: and the prophet is constituted of God both her accuser and her judge. 1. Her abominations are many, great, and aggravated; and they are _shewn_ h... [ Continue Reading ]