Ezekiel 22:15

The Emblem of Israel as an Outcast infant nurtured by the Almighty, Ezekiel 16:1-14 Married, and yet committing Adultery, Ezekiel 16:15-34 This Wickedness denounced and punished, Ezekiel 16:35-59 The Almighty's merciful relenting, Ezekiel 16:60-63 Section 15. The Emblem of the Eagle and the Cedar, Ezekiel 17:1-10 The Explanation, referring to Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, and Pharaoh, Ezekiel 17:11-24 Section 16. A Vindication of the Divine Justice, and Confutation of Israel's Proverb, Ezekiel 18:1-32 Section 17. The Emblem of the Lioness and her Whelps, Ezekiel 19:1-9 Section 18. The Emblem of the Vine plucked up and consumed, Ezekiel 19:10-14 Section 19. The Elders of Israel rebuked for their sins, Ezekiel 20:1-32 Section 20. The Divine Promises of Restoration, Ezekiel 20:33-44 Section 21. The Word dropped toward the South, Ezekiel 20:45-49 Section 22. The Prophet's face set toward Jerusalem, Ezekiel 21:1-7 Section 23. The Sharp Sword and the Great Slaughter, Ezekiel 21:8-27 Section 24. The Sword drawn against the Ammonites, Ezekiel 21:98-32 Section 25. The Sins of Jerusalem and God's Vengeance, Ezekiel 22:1-22 Section 26. The Woes uttered against False Prophets, Ezekiel 22:23-31 Section 27. The Adulteries of the People, Ezekiel 23:1-49 Section 28. The Parable of the Boiling Pot, Ezekiel 24:1-14 The Prophet's severe Affliction, Ezekiel 24:15-27 b. The Utterances against Gentiles. Section 1. Against the Ammonites, Ezekiel 25:1-7 Section 2.

22:1-16 The prophet is to judge the bloody city; the city of bloods. Jerusalem is so called, because of her crimes. The sins which Jerusalem stands charged with, are exceeding sinful. Murder, idolatry, disobedience to parents, oppression and extortion, profanation of the sabbath and holy things, seventh commandment sins, lewdness and adultery. Unmindfulness of God was at the bottom of all this wickedness. Sinners provoke God because they forget him. Jerusalem has filled the measure of her sins. Those who give up themselves to be ruled by their lusts, will justly be given up to be portioned by them. Those who resolve to be their own masters, let them expect no other happiness than their own hands can furnish; and a miserable portion it will prove.

And I will scatter thee among the Heathen, and disperse thee in the countries,.... Not only cause them to be carried captive to some one place, as Babylon; but to be scattered and dispersed throughout the various provinces of it, and in other nations, as chaff is by the winds; signifying hereby the power by which it would be done; their weakness, who would not be able to hinder it; and the uncomfortable condition they would be in: and will consume thy filthiness out of thee; by destroying some filthy persons, and reforming others; by bringing them by means of those afflictions to a sense of their sins, and to forsake them; and so would be refined as silver from its dross in a furnace: it may have a particular reference to their idolatry, that filthy sin, which they were cured of, and purged from, by their captivity, and to which they returned no more.

I will scatter thee, as the wind scatters chaff, among the heathen, the worst of the Babylonish vassals. And disperse thee in the countries; doubled for certainty of the thing. Consume thy filthiness out of thee: some take it for a threat by a fire, that shall consume the filthy sinners, and the filthy sins will cease; or else, that by removing them out of Jerusalem into captivity, and reducing them to a very low condition, they should not any more commit, but for ever loathe, their wickedness: some take it for a promise of purging mercy to better them, i.e. the remnant of them, when the rest are destroyed and wasted.

The Lord is enraged at such abominable doings. He will interfere, and put an end to them by scattering Judah among the heathen. - Ezekiel 22:13 . And, behold, I smite my hand because of thy gain which thou hast made, and over thy bloodguiltiness which is in the midst of thee. Ezekiel 22:14 . Will thy heart indeed stand firm, or will thy hands be strong for the day when I shall deal with thee? I Jehovah have spoken it, and also do it. Ezekiel 22:15 . I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the lands, and will utterly remove thine uncleanness from thee. Ezekiel 22:16 . And thou wilt be desecrated through thyself before the eyes of the nations, and know that I am Jehovah. - Ezekiel 22:13 is closely connected with the preceding verse. This serves to explain the fact that the only sins mentioned as exciting the wrath of God are covetousness and blood-guiltiness. הכּה , as 2 Kings 11:12 clearly shows, is a contracted expression for הכּה כּף אל ( Ezekiel 21:19 ), and the smiting of the hands together is a gesture indicative of wrathful indignation. For the form דּמך, contracted from דּמיך, see the comm. on Ezekiel 16:45 . - As Ezekiel 22:13 leads on to the threatening of judgment, so does Ezekiel 22:14 point in anticipation to the terrible nature of the judgment itself. The question, "will thy heart stand firm?" involves a warning against security. עמד is the opposite of נמס (cf. Ezekiel 21:12 ), as standing forms the antithesis to passing away (cf.

Psalm 102:27 ). עשׂה אותך, as in Ezekiel 16:59 and Ezekiel 7:27 . The Lord will scatter them (cf. Ezekiel 12:15 ; Ezekiel 20:23 ), and remove the uncleanness of sin, namely, by purifying the people in exile (cf. Isaiah 4:4 ). התם, from תּמם, to cause to cease, with מן, to take completely away. נחלתּ, Niphal of חלל fo lahpiN ,נחלתּ ., connected with לעיני גּוים, as in Ezekiel 20:9 , not from נחל, as many of the commentators who follow the Septuagint and Vulgate suppose. בּך, not in te, in thyself, but through thee, i.e., through thy sinful conduct and its consequences.

[Bible] Return into thy sheath, etc... The sword of Babylon, after raging against many nations, was shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by the Medes and Persians. 21:31. And I will pour out upon thee my indignation: in the fire of my rage will I blow upon thee, and will give thee into the hands of men that are brutish and contrive thy destruction. 21:32. Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it. Ezechiel Chapter 22 The general corruption of the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for which God will consume them as dross in his furnace. 22:1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 22:2. And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood? 22:3. And thou shalt shew her all her abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: This is the city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come: and that hath made idols against herself, to defile herself. 22:4. Thou art become guilty in thy blood which thou hast shed: and thou art defiled in thy idols which thou hast made: and thou hast made thy days to draw near, and hast brought on the time of thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery to all countries. 22:5. Those that are near, and those that are far from thee, shall triumph over thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in destruction. 22:6. Behold the princes of Israel, every one hath employed his arm in thee to shed blood. 22:7. They have abused father and mother in thee, they have oppressed the stranger in the midst of thee, they have grieved the fatherless and widow in thee. 22:8. Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths. 22:9. Slanderers have been in thee to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains in thee, they have committed wickedness in the midst of thee.