Ezekiel 14:13, Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 14:19-21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-21

The scope of these verses is to show, I. That national sins bring national judgments. When virtue is ruined and laid waste every thing else will soon be ruined and laid waste too (Ezek. 14:13): When the land sins against me, when vice and wickedness become epidemical, when the land sins by trespassing grievously, when the sinners have become very numerous and their sins very heinous, when gross impieties and immoralities universally prevail, then will I stretch forth my hand upon it, for the... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:13

By trespassing grievously - Having been frequently warned, and having refused to leave their sin, and so filled up the measure of their iniquity. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 14:13

Verse 13 The next verse thought to be joined: for some interpreters altogether pervert the Prophet’s sense by finishing the sentence there, as if he had said, I will extend my hand over it, &e.; But the sentence is dependent, as we shall see — 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 14:12-23

Jeremiah 14:0; Jeremiah 15:0 is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy. Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver to the exiles the same message which Jeremiah conveys to the inhabitants of Judaea. The answer discovers the nature of the questions which had been expressed or implied.(1) Can God cast out a people who are holy unto Himself?(2) Is it just to punish them with utter desolation?The prophet answers:(1) That when a people is so corrupt as to call down national judgment,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 14:13-14

Ezekiel 14:13-14 . When the land, or, when a land sinneth, &c. The meaning of this and the following verses is, that when the inhabitants of a land have filled up the measure of their iniquities, and God ariseth to execute judgment upon them, the few righteous that are left among them shall not be able, by their prayers and intercessions, to deliver the nation from the judgments decreed against it. They shall but deliver their own souls; as we see in the case of Sodom, where there... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 14:12-23

Justice in punishing Jerusalem (14:12-23)Some were no doubt saying that God would not destroy Jerusalem as Ezekiel had been prophesying. God would surely spare the city out of consideration for the godly people within it, even though such godly people may have been few in number. Ezekiel replied that even if some of the godliest people who ever lived were in the city, God would still destroy it; though he would deliver the godly (12-14). God’s punishment could take various forms, but the same... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 14:13

the land = a land. sinneth. Hebrew. chata. App-44 . trespassing . Hebrew ma'al. App-44 . Note the Figure of speech Polyptoton ( App-6 ). Hebrew - to trespass a trespass i.e. to trespass exceedingly. See note on Genesis 26:28 . Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 5:16 ; Leviticus 6:2 ; Leviticus 26:40 . Numbers 5:6 , Numbers 5:12 , Numbers 5:27 ). App-92 . break the staff of the bread. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:26 . &c.) App-92 . of = that is to say. Genitive of Apposition.... read more

Ezekiel 14:13, Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 14:19-21 Niv