Ezekiel 14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:7

For everyone of the house of Israel ,.... King and subjects, princes and people, high and low, rich and poor, of every rank, sex, and age: or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel ; the proselytes; whether of righteousness, such as were circumcised, and embraced the Jewish religion; or of the gate, who were only inhabitants with them; one as another were obliged to worship the God of Israel, and abstain from idolatry; there was but one law to the Israelite and to the stranger,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:8

And I will set my face against that man ,.... And look him out of countenance, notwithstanding all his daring impudence and presumption in coming to a prophet of the Lord, and inquiring of him by him, when guilty of gross idolatry; which mast needs be the case, when the face of God is set against a man. The Targum renders it, "my fury", or "wrath"; and indeed that is what is meant; when God sets his face against a man, he pours out his wrath, or inflicts punishment on him; see Psalm 34:16 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:9

And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing ,.... That is pleasing to men, and is not true, in hope of reward and applause, but it never comes to pass, and his expectations are not answered: I the Lord have deceived that prophet ; by sending a lying spirit to him, as to Ahab's prophets, 1 Kings 22:22 ; by giving him up to strong delusions, to believe a lie, and publish it, 2 Thessalonians 2:11 ; and to his own heart's lusts; being willing, for the sake of gain, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:10

And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity ,.... Both the false prophet, and those that sought unto him, and were deceived by him; and which being laid according to the strictness of divine justice, is intolerable: sad is the case when a man is obliged to bear his own sins, and the punishment of them, and has no surety to undertake for him, and be a mediator between God and him, and make atonement for him: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:11

That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me ,.... Or from his worship, as the Targum; from the law of God, and obedience to it: sin is a going astray from God, a deviation from his commandments; it leads men out of the way of their duty into wrong paths, which issue in ruin, if grace prevent not; and sometimes the means which God makes use of for the restoring of his own people, and bringing them back to himself, are the punishments which he inflicts upon others; and which is his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12

The word of the Lord came again unto saying. At the same time as before, continuing the prophecy, and a denunciation of judgments; for it does not seem to begin a new prophecy. The Targum renders it, the word of prophecy from the Lord. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously ,.... That is, the inhabitants of the land, when they are in general become sinners against God and his law; and not merely sinners, as all men are, but grievous ones, notorious sinners, guilty of very gross enormities, of great prevarication, perfidy, and treachery; for God is a God longsuffering, and has great patience with a people; and does not usually come forth in his judgments against nation, until sin has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:14

Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it ,.... In the sinning land, and made intercession for it, that the famine might be removed, and the inhabitants of it be saved alive, this would not be granted; though they were men that found favour in the sight of God, and were eminent for prayer, and successful in it, and the means of saving many; as Noah his family, by preparing an ark according to the will of God; and Daniel was an instrument of saving the lives of his companions,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:15

If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land ,.... Evil and hurtful ones; not so much those that are poisonous as pernicious; such, as lions, tigers, foxes, wolves, and bears, that are very ravenous and devouring, and especially in a time of famine before threatened; though sometimes God makes use of lesser creatures to do damage to a land, and the fruits of it, as locusts, caterpillars, &c.; but the former seem to be intended here, which sometimes God threatens and sends to a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:16

Though these three men were in it ,.... Above named, Noah, Daniel, and Job; as they were not, two of them not being in the land of the living, and the other in Babylon; but if all three had been in a land so threatened, and used all the interest they had with God, by fervent prayer and supplication, to have called in the wild beasts, and chained them up, and to preserve the people from being destroyed by them, it would have been all in vain; the Lord was determined upon the destruction... read more

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