Ezekiel 18:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. ”

Ezekiel 18:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I have no pleasure. This is the answer to the question in Ezekiel 18:23 .
Ezekiel 18:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

We see, therefore, how God throws off that false reproach from himself with which the children of Israel taunted him, saying, that they perished by his immoderate rigor, and could find no reaso...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves , and live ye. For I have no pleasure - God repeats what he had so solemnly declared before. Can...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin....
Ezekiel 18:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

God's Equity vindicated The popular view of Israel's calamities, as expressed in a current proverb, was that they were the punishment of the sins of former generations. Though there was a measure...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE RELIGION OF THE INDIVIDUAL Ezekiel 18:1-32 IN the sixteenth chapter, as we have seen, Ezekiel has asserted in the most unqualified terms the validity of the principle of national retributio...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Reversal of the Divine Judgment Ezekiel 18:14-32 The Jews of Ezekiel's day asserted that God's dealings with their nation were not just, because they were suffering, not for their own sins,...
Ezekiel 18:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's t...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here, in conclusion, is a most striking and just appeal from the Lord, followed up with the strongest assurance of mercy. But here again, as before, the expression concerning the Lord's pleasure in t...
Ezekiel 18:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth ,.... Which is not to be interpreted simply and absolutely, and with respect to all persons afflicted and punished by him; for he does take deli...
Ezekiel 18:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye. Ver. 32. For I have no pleasure. ] See on Ezekiel 18:23 ; Ezekiel 33:11 .
Ezekiel 18:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Warning against Apostasy. B. C. 593. 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel,...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Another argument to persuade to conversion, taken from the gracious nature of God, who taketh pleasure in the return of a sinner; for that is the meaning of the words: sinners displease God when they...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, Oh house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 18:27-32 .) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 18:29 . “Are not your ways unequal?” “They asserted ( Ezekiel 18:25 ) that the ways of God were not right—properly, not weighed in the balance of ri...
Ezekiel 18:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 18:2 . The fathers have eaten sour (unripe) grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Chaldaic, the children follow them. This proverb threw the blame on their fathers, on Adam,...
Ezekiel 18:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Preservative from ruin I. The assumption of an awful fact. Iniquity induces ruin. The term “ruin” o...
Ezekiel 18:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, and we see at once from what it started. Ezekiel ha...
Ezekiel 18:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Merciful call to Repentance
Ezekiel 18:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:9 ; Ezekiel 18:23 ; Ezekiel 18:30 ; Lamentations 3:33
Ezekiel 18:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I have no pleasure — Sinners displease God when they undo themselves; they please him when they return.

Ezekiel 18:32 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 18:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 18:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 18:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 18:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 18:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 18:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 18:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 18:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes