1-16 A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence 17-22 God will burn them as dross in his furnace 23-31 The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and the people

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2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

judge. or, plead for. Eze 20:4 23:36

bloody city [heb] city of bloods Eze 23:45 24:6,9 2Ki 21:16 24:3,4 Jer 2:30,34 Ho 4:2 Na 3:1 Mt 23:35 27:25 Lu 11:50 Ac 7:52

thou shalt Eze 16:2 Isa 58:1 1Ti 5:20

shew her [heb] make her know
her abominations Eze 8:9-17 16:1-63 23:1-49

3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

sheddeth Eze 22:27 24:6-9 Zep 3:3

that her Eze 22:4 7:2-12 12:25 Ro 2:5 2Pe 2:3

and maketh 2Ki 21:2-9 Jer 2:1-3:25

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.

that thou Eze 22:2 2Ki 21:16

and thou hast Nu 32:14 Mt 23:32,33 1Th 2:16

have I Eze 5:14,15 16:57 31:18 Le 26:32 De 28:37 29:24 1Ki 9:7 2Ch 7:20 Ps 44:13,14 79:4 89:41,42 Jer 18:16 24:9 44:8 La 2:15,16 Da 9:16

5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

infamous and much vexed [heb] polluted of name, much in vexation Jer 15:2,3

6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

the princes Eze 22:27 Ne 9:34 Isa 1:23 Jer 2:26,27 5:5 32:32 Da 9:8 Mic 3:1-3,9-11 Zec 3:3

power [heb] arm Mic 2:1

7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

set Ex 21:17 Le 20:9 De 27:16 Pr 20:20 30:11,17 Mt 15:4-6 7:10

dealt Eze 22:29 18:12 Ex 22:21,22 De 27:19 Pr 22:22,23 Jer 7:6 Zec 7:10 Mal 3:5

oppression. or, deceit

8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Eze 22:26 20:13,21,24 23:38,39 Le 19:30 Am 8:4-6 Mal 1:6-8,12

9 In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness.

men that carry tales [heb] men of slanders Ex 20:16 23:1 Le 19:16 1Ki 21:10-13 Ps 50:20 101:5 Pr 10:18 18:8 26:22 Jer 6:28 9:4 37:13-15 38:4-6 Mt 26:59 Ac 6:11-13 24:5,13 Re 12:9,10

they eat Eze 18:6,11,15 Ps 106:28 1Co 10:18-21

they commit Eze 16:43 24:13 Jud 20:6 Ho 4:2,10,14 6:9 7:4

10 In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

discovered Ge 35:22 49:4 Le 18:7,8 20:11 De 27:20,23 2Sa 16:21,22 1Ch 5:1 Am 2:7 1Co 5:1

humbled Eze 18:6 Le 18:19 20:18

11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

one. or, every one.
committed Eze 18:11 Le 18:20 20:10 De 22:22 Job 31:9-11 Jer 5:7,8 9:2 29:23 Mal 3:5 Mt 5:27,28 1Co 6:9 Ga 5:19 Heb 13:4

another. or, every one.
hath lewdly. or, hath by lewdness Le 18:15 20:12,17

his sister Le 18:9 20:17 De 27:22 2Sa 13:1,14,28,29

12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.

taken gifts Ex 23:7,8 De 16:19 27:25 Isa 1:23 Mic 7:2,3 Zep 3:3,4

thou hast Eze 18:8,13 Ex 22:25,26 Le 25:35,36 De 23:19 Ne 5:1,7 Ps 15:5

greedily Pr 1:19 Isa 56:11 Mt 23:14,25 Lu 3:13 18:11 19:8 1Co 5:11 6:10 1Ti 3:3 6:9,10 Jas 5:1-4 Jude 1:1

and hast Eze 23:35 De 32:18 Ps 106:21 Jer 2:32 3:21

13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

I have Eze 21:14,17 Nu 24:10

thy dishonest Eze 22:27 Pr 28:8 Isa 33:15 Jer 5:26,27 7:9-11 Am 2:6-8 3:10 8:4-6 Mic 2:1-3 6:10,11 1Th 4:6

and at Eze 22:2-4

14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

Thine heart Eze 21:7 28:9 Job 40:9 Isa 31:3 45:9 Jer 13:21 1Co 10:22 Heb 10:31

I the Eze 5:13 17:24 24:14 1Sa 15:29 Mr 13:31

15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

scatter Eze 5:12 12:14,15 34:6 36:19 Le 26:33 De 4:27 28:25,64 Ne 1:8 Jer 15:4 Zec 7:14

consume Eze 22:18,22 20:38 23:47,48 24:6-14 Isa 1:25 Zec 13:9 Mal 3:3 4:1 Mt 3:12 1Pe 4:12

16 And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

take thine inheritance in thyself. or, be profaned in thyself Eze 7:24 25:3 Isa 43:28 47:6

thou shalt know Eze 6:7 39:6,7,28 Ex 8:22 1Ki 20:13,28 Ps 9:16 83:18 Isa 37:20 Da 4:25,32-35

17 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

the house Ps 119:119 Isa 1:22 Jer 6:28-30

brass Eze 22:20 Isa 48:4 La 4:1,2

in the midst Pr 17:3 Isa 31:9 48:10

dross [heb] drosses

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

I will. Jerusalem is here represented as the fining pot; all the people, who had become dross, are to be gathered together in it; and the fire of the Chaldeans, blown by the wrath of God, is to melt the whole. No ordinary means will avail to purge their impurities; the most violent must therefore be resorted to. Eze 11:7 24:3-6 Mic 4:12 Mt 13:40,40-42

20 As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

As they gather. [heb] According to the gathering
to blow Eze 22:21 21:31,32 Isa 54:16

in mine Eze 24:13 Jer 4:11,12,20

21 Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof.

and blow Eze 15:6,7 20:47,48 22:20-22 De 4:24 29:20 32:22 2Ki 25:9 Ps 21:9 50:3 Isa 30:33 Jer 21:12 Na 1:6 Zep 1:18

and ye Ps 68:2 112:10 Isa 64:2,7 Jer 9:7

22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

ye shall know Eze 22:16,31 20:8,33 Ho 5:10 Re 16:1

23 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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24 Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

2Ch 28:22 36:14-16 Isa 1:5 9:13 Jer 2:30 5:3 6:29 44:16-19 Zep 3:2

25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.

a conspiracy Eze 13:10-16 1Ki 22:11-13,23 Jer 5:30,31 6:13 La 2:14 4:13 2Pe 2:1-3

like Eze 22:27-29 Isa 56:11 Ho 6:9 Mic 3:5-7 Re 13:11,15

ravening. That is, from the Saxon {reafian}, seizing and devouring it with eagerness and rapacity.

they have devoured Eze 13:19 Jer 2:30,34 Mt 23:14 Mr 12:40 Lu 20:47 Re 17:6 18:13

26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

priests 1Sa 2:12-17,22 Jer 2:8,26,27 La 4:13 Mic 3:11,12 Zep 3:3,4 Mal 1:6-8 2:1-3,8

violated. [heb] offered violence to.
profaned Le 22:2 1Sa 2:15,29

put no Eze 44:23 Le 10:1-3,10 11:47 20:25 Jer 15:19 Hag 2:11-13

hid their Eze 22:8 20:12,13

I am profaned Eze 36:20 Ro 2:24

27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

princes Eze 22:6 19:3-6 22:6 45:9 Isa 1:23 Ho 7:1-7 Mic 3:2,3,9-11 7:8 Zep 3:3 Jas 2:6,7

to get Eze 22:13 Mt 21:13 Jas 5:1-4

28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.

prophets. The prophets employed all their ingenuity to varnish over the crimes of the princes, (the antecedent to them) to palliate their offences, and to conceal their faults, while they were like ravening wolves, and took bribes to shed innocent blood. By these means they shared the dishonest gains with the princes, or availed themselves of their authority to gratify their avarice or revenge. Eze 22:25 13:10-16 Isa 30:10 Jer 8:10,11

seeing Eze 13:22,23 21:29 Jer 23:25-32 La 2:14 Zep 3:4

Thus saith the Lord Eze 13:6,7 Jer 23:21 28:2,15 29:8,9 37:19

29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

people Eze 22:7 18:12 Isa 5:7 10:2 59:3-7 Jer 5:26-28,31 6:13 Am 3:10 Mic 2:2 3:3 Jas 5:4

oppression. or, deceit
oppressed Eze 22:7 Ex 22:21 23:9 Le 19:33 Ps 94:6 Mt 25:43

wrongfully [heb]
without right

30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

I sought. God, speaking after the manner of men, sought for some Moses, Phineas, or Samuel, to stand in the gap on this occasion; but as he found none, its destruction was inevitable Isa 59:16 63:5 Jer 5:1

make Eze 13:5 Ge 18:28-32 Ex 32:10-14 Ps 106:23 Jer 15:1

31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

have I pured Eze 22:21,22

their own Eze 7:3,8,9 9:10 11:21 16:43 Ro 2:8,9