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Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Ezekiel 14:1-23

Heart Idols Eze 14:1-11 "Then came " So some event had taken place before, and the incident now about to be related is to be read in connection with preceding circumstances. A wall had been built of which the Lord God disapproved. It was a wrong wall altogether wrong in the foundations, wrong in the structure, wrong because it was daubed with untempered mortar: the Lord therefore sent a strong wind to rend it, and he caused an overflowing shower to fall upon it in his anger, and great... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-21

We have no difficulty in explaining sin as the cause of sorrow. The four sore judgments of God, famine, the sword, wild beasts, and pestilence, are among the rods by which guilty nations, in all ages, have been scourged. But when Noah, Daniel, and Job, are spoken of as beings saved from general destruction by their righteousness, this can only be explained upon Gospel principles. The unerring language of the Word of God is, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God; and, therefore, by... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:12-23

12-23 National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing people rebel against him, they may justly expect all his judgments. The faith, obedience, and prayers of Noah prevailed to the saving of his house, but not of the old world. Job's sacrifice and prayer in behalf of his friends were accepted, and Daniel had prevailed for the saving his companions and the wise men of Babylon. But a people that had filled the measure... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Ezekiel 14:12-23

God's Irrevocable Sentence v. 12. The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, v. 13. Son of man, when the land sinneth against Me by trespassing grievously, in unfaithfulness and treachery, then will I stretch out Mine hand upon it, to mete out the well-deserved punishment upon its idolatrous inhabitants, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, taking away that upon which man chiefly relies for food, and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast from it, Cf.Ezekiel... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Ezekiel 14:1-23

3. The Testimony against the Idolatrous Seekers after Oracles (Ch. 14.)1And there came unto me men from the elders of Israel, and sat before me. 2And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 3Son of man, these men have caused their filthy idols to go up upon their heart, and the stumbling-block of their iniquity have they given before their face; shall I indeed 4allow Myself to be inquired at by them? Therefore speak with them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 14:1-23

Certain of the elders of Israel now came to Ezekiel, evidently to hear what message he had to deliver to them. The word of the Lord revealed to him that whatever their outward attitude might be, they were at heart idolaters, and he was charged to declare to them that while idolatry remained in their heart they were necessarily estranged from Jehovah. He was to appeal to them to return to Jehovah, and to make perfectly clear that so long as they retained idolatry in their heart the only answer... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:15-16

“If I cause dangerous wild beasts to pass through the land, and they despoil it so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts, though these three men were in it, as I live says the Lord Yahweh, they will deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only will be delivered, but the land will be desolate.” The presence of such wild beasts indicates a land deserted by man, and thus one already under judgment, to be taken over by the wild beasts who would despoil what was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:12-23

Ezekiel 14:12-Isaiah : . The Righteous cannot Save the City, but only Themselves.— In spite of all Ezekiel’ s visions and warnings, the people still cherish the illusion that Jerusalem will be spared— if for no other reason, at least for the sake of the righteous to be found in it, on the principle of solidarity. Why might it not, like Sodom ( Genesis 18:32), be spared “ for ten’ s sake” ? In this very interesting and rhetorical passage, where Ezekiel develops the broad doctrine of individual... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 14:15

Noisome beasts are one of the great plagues or armies that God hath always at his command. To pass through the land; to range over the land, and spoil their cattle, devour their servants and children, and destroy travellers, and make it as a wilderness. No man may pass through without much danger, and great guards that may repel the wild ravening beasts. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 14:16

As I live; a form of speech in which God by oath confirms what he speaketh, and it is such an oath as becomes him only, who is life, and cannot die. Neither sons nor daughters; neither sons that should perpetuate their families, and are the support of houses, nor daughters, the tenderness of whose sex and age does make and keep parents’ affections fervent towards them. No near relation should escape on their account. Desolate, i.e. most desolate, as the Hebrew use by an abstract to express the... read more

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