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James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 22:30

NOT A MAN TO BE FOUND!‘And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap … but I found none.’ Ezekiel 22:30 It is a terrible thing to read this chapter, and to trace an exact resemblance between the sins enumerated by the prophet and those with which we are familiar in many of the great cities of our empire. Indeed there are forms of sin amongst us in excess of those charged against Jerusalem. These sins were committed in Jerusalem, which God had chosen,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 22:26

“Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, nor have they caused men to distinguish between the clean and the unclean, and they have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” The priests also come under heavy criticism. Doing violence to the Law may suggest that they have distorted it in their teaching (as the Pharisees would later) or it may signify that that they have done... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests; God owns them not as his, they were priests that suited such a people. Priests; men by office bound to reverence the law, to study it, and to preserve it from men’s corruptions. Violated my law; wrested it to oppression and impiety, and to maintain errors, and made it speak what they would, not what it did. Profaned; lightly esteemed, as if they had been but common things, and accordingly use them. My holy things; sacrifices and oblations, which were consecrated to holy uses,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 22:27

Her princes, as before, Ezekiel 22:25,Ezekiel 22:26. Princes; rulers of all sorts, who should have crushed oppressors and defended the oppressed. Wolves; creatures greedy, bloody, and crafty, resembling dogs that men make use of to defend their folds; so the authority which God had given to defend is by these hypocrites perverted to satisfy the bloody and greedy appetite of tyrannical governors among the Jews: possibly the prophet may tax the degeneracy and baseness of these rulers hereby. Shed... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 22:28

Prophets; false prophets. Have daubed them; flattered their oppressing bloody princes in their ways of sin and violence. With untempered mortar; with promises and encouragements that, like ill tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems for the present smooth and safe. Divining lies; pretending they had by vision from God all the good they promised, whereas it was all a notorious lie and falsehood. God never spake to those prophets, and what by his own prophets he spake was of quite... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land, the common people, have used oppression; greatly, continuedly, and cruelly oppressed one another, wronged each other by frauds and violence. Exercised robbery; on every occasion turned downright thieves and robbers. Have vexed, by these oppressions, the poor and needy: see Ezekiel 18:7. Wrongfully; without any colour of justice, reason, or so much as hearing him, as the phrase seems to import. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 22:30

I sought, very earnestly and diligently; spoken of God after the manner of man. A man; any one. Amongst them; among princes, prophets, priests, or people. That should make up the hedge; to repair the breach, and prevent further mischief. Stand in the gap; that might interpose between a sinful, suffering people and their offended God, and entreat for mercy, that the land might not be destroyed. But I found none; all were corrupted, not one but obstinately went on to sin and provoke me. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 22:23-31

(Ezekiel 22:23-31.)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The corrupt condition of all ranks of the people as the immediate cause of the destruction of the kingdom.Ezekiel 22:24. “Thou art the land that is not cleansed.” The priests, whose office it was to keep the land tree from moral and ceremonial defilement had neglected their duty (Leviticus 16:19). The whole land had become corrupt, but Jerusalem was to be regarded as a concentration of the iniquity of the whole land. “Nor rained upon in the day of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 22:1-31

Chapter 22Now, why would God do this? Chapter 22 he now tells us the things that were happening and the sins for which God's judgment was coming.Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; The city is filled with murders in the midst of it, the shedding of blood, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 22:1-31

Ezekiel 22:8 . Thou hast profaned my sabbaths, the sabbatical days and years. This is repeated in Ezekiel 23:38, to show that the desecration of holy things filled up the measure of Judah’s sin: Ezekiel 20:12. Ezekiel 22:18 . They are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are even the dross of silver. Both the Vatican and the Alexandrian versions of the Septuagint represent the house of Israel as gold and silver mixed with those baser metals in the midst... read more

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