2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 18:23; Ezekiel 18:30; Lamentations 3:33
I have no pleasure. This is the answer to the question in Ezekiel 18:23 .
We see, therefore, how God throws off that false reproach from himself with which the children of Israel taunted him, saying, that they perishe...
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 rep...
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 tra...
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...
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 th...
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, be...
The next prophecy was directed against the false attitude of mind obtaining among the exiled people, which had expressed itself in a proverb, "The fa...
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,...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us both pause over this solemn chapter, and ponder well the contents of it, looking up to God the Holy Ghost, with an humble...
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 af...
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 pleasu...
Warning against Apostasy. B. C. 593. ...
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 mea...
“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,...
( 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 no...
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 p...
Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Preservative from ruin I. The assumption of an aw...
I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth. The mercy of God I. The benevolence of God’s own character. He who is love, and who delights...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 18:1 , Ezekiel 18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb, etc.? Another and entirely different section opens, a...
God's Merciful call to Repentance
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, a victim of perdition by his own fault, saith the Lord God; wherefore turn yourselves and liv...
I have no pleasure — Sinners displease God when they undo themselves; they please him when they return.
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.