Ezekiel 14:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. ”

• Ezekiel 14:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Jeremiah 14 ; Jeremiah 15 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 inhabitan...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Righteous cannot Save the City, but only Themselves. In spite of all Ezekiel's visions and warnings, the people still cherish the illusion that Jerusalem will be spared if for no other reason,...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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: The argument is cumulative. He first puts the...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  A Divine Principle and an apparent Exception As a rule when God punishes a land for its wickedness by such judgments as famine, wild beasts, sword, or pestilence, the presence in it of the most em...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (15-20) In these verses the same declaration is repeated, for the sake of emphasis, with each one of three other instruments of punishment, with only such variations of phraseology as are required fo...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Certain of the elders of Israel now came to Ezekiel, evidently to hear what message he had to deliver to them. The word of the Lord revealed to him that whatever their outward attitude might be, they...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We have no difficulty in explaining sin as the cause of sorrow. The four sore judgments of God, famine, the sword, wild beasts, and pestilence, are among the rods by which guilty nations, in all ages...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it ,.... Who are again mentioned by name, as in Ezekiel 14:14 ; and are the three men referred to in Ezekiel 14:16 ; [as] I live, saith the Lord God, they...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness. Ver. 20....

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land We find it was one punishment of the inhabitants of Judea, to be infested by lions and other wild beasts. To this their neighbourhood to the deser...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Destruction of the People Determined; The Variety of the Divine Judgment; A Remnant Preserved. B. C.  593....

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their own souls; their person, their life. By their righteousness; not meriting the deliverance, but yet the justice and mercy of God shall surely keep them from falling in the punishment who wer...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury on it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast, though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, as I live says the Lord Yahweh, they will del...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 tresp...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Jerusa...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Or if I send a pestilence. Public calamity a call to private humiliation Depend upon it, we have need, and as the years roll away we shall have more and more need, to remind ourselves of the un...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 14:1 As the result, probably, of the previous utterances, certain elders of Israel , i . e . of the exiles in Tel-Abib, came to consult Ezekiel, wishing to know what co...

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Irrevocable Sentence

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• Ezekiel 14:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 2:29 ; 1 John 3:10 ; 1 John 3:7 ; Acts 10:35 ; Daniel 1:1 ; Ezekiel 14:14 ; Ezekiel 14:16 ; Ezekiel 18:20 ; Ezekiel 18:22 ; Hosea 10:12 ; Isaiah 3:10 ; Job 5:19-24 ; Psalms 33:18...

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