Ezekiel 14:14-20

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:15

Verse 15 Now he mentions the second kind of punishment. For we said that God’s four scourges were here brought before us, which are more familiarly known to men through frequent use. They are hunger and wild beasts, war and pestilence. The Prophet has spoken of famine; he now comes down to wild beasts. This kind of scourge is rarely used in Scripture; for God more frequently mentions the sword, pestilence, and famine; but when he distinctly treats, of his scourges, he adds also savage beasts.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:17

Verse 17 The Prophet now descends to the third kind of punishment. Hence God says, if he send a sword upon a land, he cannot be entreated so as not to consume it utterly, neither will he admit any man’s intercession, although the most holy dwell there, namely, Job, Noah, and Daniel. But the phrase used must be marked: if I shall say to the sword, pass through to exterminate and blot out the whole land, or cut off from it, both man and beast, because we here gather the great power of God’s... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:19

Verse 19 He now affirms of the fourth kind of punishment, what he has hitherto pronounced of the rest. He says, then, If I shall have sent a pestilence, and have devoted a land to devastation, that Job, Daniel, and Noah, should be safe if they dwelt there: but that their righteousness should not profit even their sons and their daughters. Nay, he seems to speak with greater restriction, since he has substituted the singular number for the plural: for he had just said, they shall not free either... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-14

A new section begins, implying as before an interval of silence. What follows presents a striking parallelism to Jeremiah 15:1 , Jeremiah 15:2 . There also we have the "four sore judgments," the declaration that not even the presence of Moses and Samuel would avail to save the people. They were obviously selected by Jeremiah as examples of the power of intercession ( Exodus 32:11 , Exodus 32:12 ; 1 Samuel 7:9 ; 1 Samuel 12:23 ). Ezekiel's selection of names proceeds on a different... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-23

Human atonement valueless. The hopeful among the Jews probably remembered that in times of former correction God had yielded, in some measure, to the intercessions of the saints. If they had not gained all that they asked, they had gained some advantage. Why might that not occur again? Might not God concede some of his demand? This was impossible, for the first necessity was that righteous government be maintained. No good can ever come to men by tampering with righteousness. I. SIN ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:14

Noah, Daniel, and Job. I. THE SPLENDID PRE - EMINENCE OF NOAH , DANIEL , AND JOB . These three men are selected from ages far apart, and from the greatest diversity of circumstances. In temperament and external history there is little resemblance between them. Noah the patriarch, looms on the horizon of history in epic grandeur; Daniel is the brave hero in a tyrant's court, and the man of skill and science in a civilized society; Job belongs to the region of pastoral... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:14

Illustrious piety. Ezekiel was especially commissioned to set forth and to impress upon the people the individual, the personal, aspect of religion. In many places, as here, he lays stress upon the accountability of each several man to God. One cannot deliver another from deserved punishment. Each must answer for himself, must reap the reward of his deeds, whether good or evil. A man's piety cannot save his ungodly neighbour when the time of reckoning and judgment arrives. No matter bow... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:15

Noisome beasts (see note on Ezekiel 5:17 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:19

Pestilence is joined with blood, as in Ezekiel 5:17 ; Ezekiel 38:22 , as indicating its death-bearing character. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 14:20

The privilege and power of the godly, their nature and limitation. "Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God," etc. Three very distinguished men are here mentioned, two of whom had long passed away from this world and all its scenes, the other was yet amongst men upon earth. Yet Noah and Job are spoken of as still in being. Absent from this world, they were yet living and present in the great universe of God. These undesigned testimonies to man's immortality,... read more

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