“ Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. ”
Ezekiel 22. The Sins of the Classes and the Masses. The doom which has just been described in such fiercely vivid terms contains only one allusion to the sins which justified it ( Ezekiel 21:23 f....
holy . See note on Exodus 3:6 . profaned My sabbaths , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 19:30 ).
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. Thou hast despised - All my ordinances are not only neglected, but treated with contempt; and my Sabbaths profaned. There is not on...
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Another Indictment of Jerusalem The various religious and social evils that prevail in the city are recited ( Ezekiel 22:1-11 ). Their coming punishment is then predicted, first in direct terms (...
FINAL ORACLES AGAINST JERUSALEM Ezekiel 22:1-31 ; Ezekiel 24:1-27 THE close of the first period of Ezekiel's work was marked by two dramatic incidents, which made the day memorable both in the...
The next movement described the utter evil of the city. Its fundamental sins of bloodshed and idolatry were named and denounced, and the resultant evils were described. These consisted of the oppress...
The opening of this chapter, in the words of the Lord, is put into the form of a question, not only of judging, but it seems as if the Lord condescended to ask His servant, whether he had ought to sa...
Thou hast despised mine holy things ,.... The holy place, the temple, and the worship of it; holy persons, the priests that officiated there; holy sacrifices offered up by them; the holy word of God...
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. Ver. 8. Thou hast despised mine holy things. ] These are all foretokens of a perishing people. Emphasin habet quod dicit sanc...
Behold, the princes of Israel , &c. Probably the members of the great sanhedrim, or the king's counsellors and chief officers, are here intended; every one in thee Not one to be found of a mor...
The Sins of Jerusalem. B. C. 591. 1 Moreover the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying...
Thou, all the land, or thou, O Jerusalem, or thou, O Zedekiah, the chief of the princes; or else, having spoken of them all in the plural, he now changeth number, and so speaks to each in particula...
“Behold the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in you to shed blood. In you have they treated dismissively the authority of father and mother. In the midst of you they hav...
THE SINS OF JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL: THE GENERAL CORRUPTION OF PROPHETS, PRIESTS, PRINCES, AND PEOPLE (Chap. 22) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—We have here another description of the sins of Jerusalem and Israel;...
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:...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 22:1 , Ezekiel 22:2 Moreover , etc. The word connects what follows with the word of the Lord which began in Ezekiel 20:2 . That connection is, indeed, sufficient...
The Weight of Jerusalem's Guilt
Amos 8:4-6 ; Ezekiel 20:13 ; Ezekiel 20:21 ; Ezekiel 20:24 ; Ezekiel 22:26 ; Ezekiel 23:38 ; Ezekiel 23:39 ; Leviticus 19:30 ; Malachi 1:12 ; Malachi 1:6-8
Thou — O Jerusalem. Mine holy things — All mine institutions, temple, sacrifices, feasts.