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Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-23

JUDAH AND JERUSALEM CANNOT CLAIM EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENTS BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS FEW THEREIN (Ezekiel 14:12-23)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 14:12-13. “When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously.” Their sin is more particularly defined as “trespass,” the literal expression being “to trespass a trespass,” i.e. to commit a very great trespass. The first signification of the Hebrew word is “to cover,” and therefore it is used to denote acting in any secret or treacherous manner,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:1-23

Chapter 14Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them? ( Ezekiel 14:1-3 )Why should I talk to them? Why should I deal with them? These guys that are sitting here in front of you, they've got idols that they have set up in their hearts.Idolatry begins in the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 14:1-23

Ezekiel 14:1 . Then came certain of the elders of Israel, ex-judges and magistrates in Judea. They were all idolaters, yet they wished to know whether there were any hope of their return to Jerusalem, and of restoration to their lands and their honours. They sat and waited for the Word of the Lord to speak by his prophet. Ezekiel 14:3 . These men have set up their idols in their heart. Viri hi fecerunt ascendere stercora sua in cor suum. These men have caused the dung, or as the Munster... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 14:15

Eze 14:15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: Ver. 15. If I cause noisome beasts. ] As lions, wolves, bears, serpents, &c. Great hurt hath been done not only by such, as Numbers 21:6 2 Kings 2:24 ; 2Ki 17:25-26 Joshua 24:12 ; but also by tamer creatures when set on by God. Rebellis facta est, quia homo numini, creatura homini. a Rats, conies, frogs, wasps, moths, have done much... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 14:16

Ezekiel 14:16 [Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. Ver. 16. Though these three men were in it. ] All alive, and lustily tugging; yet it would not do. In common calamities heathens had their supplications and sacrifices. Papists have their litanies and processions, though to small purpose. Let us, in the like ease, up and be doing, that the Lord may be... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 14:15

noisome: Ezekiel 5:17, Leviticus 26:22, 1 Kings 20:36, 2 Kings 17:25, Jeremiah 15:3 spoil: or, bereave Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:6 - rid Deuteronomy 32:24 - the teeth Job 5:23 - beasts Psalms 50:11 - wild Isaiah 45:7 - I make Peace Jeremiah 9:10 - so Ezekiel 14:21 - my four read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 14:16

these: Ezekiel 14:14, Ezekiel 14:18, Matthew 18:19, Matthew 18:20, James 5:16 in it: Heb. in the midst of it as I live: Ezekiel 14:20, Ezekiel 33:11, Numbers 14:28, Numbers 14:29 they shall: Genesis 18:23-Micah :, Genesis 19:29, Job 22:20, Acts 27:24, Hebrews 11:7 Reciprocal: Job 5:23 - beasts Psalms 50:11 - wild Jeremiah 5:6 - a lion read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:15

15. Noisome beasts Remembering that serpents, according to Scripture language, were included among these “hurtful beasts” (Genesis 3:14), it is a suggestive circumstance that over twenty thousand people die in India every year of snake bite, notwithstanding the excessive population and the carefulness of British officials, and notwithstanding the fact that the government kills five hundred thousand of these reptiles every year ( Victoria Institute, 26:89, 111). In Syria, where the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:16

16. Neither sons nor daughters Noah was granted this answer to prayer, and Daniel saved his fellow-exiles, and Job his three friends (compare James 5:16; Matthew 18:20); but the wickedness of the holy land is so great, because of God’s special favors, that even the united prayer of all three would not be granted in behalf of these hardened impenitents. read more

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