Ezekiel 22:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

days. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for the judgment inflicted in them.

come even unto. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hast entered the time of".

have. made thee. reproach... mocking. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:37). These words occur nowhere else. App-92.

heathen = nations.

Ezekiel 22:4

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.