"As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations Sermons
I. THE REASONS FOR REPROACH EXISTING IN THE MORAL CONDITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. The catalogue of the people's sins is both a long and an awful one. It suffices to mention these as boldly charged upon them by the faithful prophet of the Lord. 1. Idolatry. 2. Violence and murder. 3. Disregard of parents. 4. Oppression of strangers, of the widows and fatherless. 5. Profanation of the sabbath. 6. Lewdness and vile indulgence of lust. 7. Bribery. 8. Extortion. Was ever such an indictment brought against a community? The marvel is, not that the threatened judgment came, but that it was so long delayed. II. THE REPROACH AS BROUGHT BY MEN AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. It certainly seems strange, all but incredible, that the highly favored Jerusalem should be famed among the very heathen for degradation in iniquity and moral debasement. But the language of Ezekiel is explicit; and he would be more likely to soften than to exaggerate the charge. Jerusalem a reproach, a mocking, infamous, defiled, full of tumult! How are the mighty fallen! The city of the great King, the seat of the temple of Jehovah, the home of the consecrated priesthood, - infamous among the surrounding idolaters for flagitious violation of those very moral laws which the city was consecrated to conserve! III. THE REPROACH BROUGHT BY GOD AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. The simple dignity of the Divine reproach is beyond all rhetoric, all denunciation. "Thou hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God." Here, indeed, was the real secret of the defection and rebellion, of the vices and crimes of the sons of Israel Had they kept Jehovah in memory, they would have kept themselves free from the errors and. the follies into which they fell. After all that the Lord had done for them, after all his forbearance and long-suffering, they nevertheless forgot him! There was but one hope for Jerusalem, but one way of recovery and restoration - that they should bring again to memory him whom they had not only forsaken, but forgotten. - T.
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross. Stand in fancy in one of the fights of the old civil war. The Royalists are fighting desperately, and are winning apace; but I hear a cry from the other side that Cromwell's Ironsides are coming. Now we shall see some fighting. Oliver and his men are lions. But lo! I see that the fellows who come up hang fire, and are afraid to rush into the thick of the fight; surely these are not Cromwell's Ironsides, and yonder captain is not old Nell? I do not believe it; it cannot be. Why, if they were what they profess to be, they would have broken the ranks of those perfumed cavaliers long ago, and have made them fly before them like chaff before the wind. So when I hear men say, "Here is a body of Christians." What! those Christians? Those cowardly people, who hardly dare speak a word for Jesus! Those covetous people, who give a few cheese parings to His cause! Those inconsistent people, whom you would not know to be Christian professors if they did not label themselves! What! such beings followers of a crucified Saviour! The world sneers at such pretensions, and well it may.( C. H. Spurgeon.) People EzekielPlaces JerusalemTopics Abominable, Abominations, Blood, Bloodshed, Bloody, Cause, Caused, Clear, Confront, Declare, Deeds, Detestable, Disgusting, Hast, Judge, Practices, Shew, Town, Wilt, Yea, YesOutline 1. A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence17. God will burn them as dross in his furnace 23. The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and the people Dictionary of Bible Themes Ezekiel 22:1-4 5541 society, negative Library God Seeks Intercessors"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night. Ye that are the Lord's remembrancers, keep not silence, and give Him no rest till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth."--ISA. lxii. 6, 7. "And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor."--ISA. lix. 16. "And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered, and there was none to uphold."--ISA. lxiii. 5. "There is none that calleth upon Thy name, that … Andrew Murray—The Ministry of Intercession The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, How those who Fear Scourges and those who Contemn them are to be Admonished. The Wrath of God The Holy City; Or, the New Jerusalem: Ezekiel Links Ezekiel 22:2 NIVEzekiel 22:2 NLT Ezekiel 22:2 ESV Ezekiel 22:2 NASB Ezekiel 22:2 KJV Ezekiel 22:2 Bible Apps Ezekiel 22:2 Parallel Ezekiel 22:2 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 22:2 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 22:2 French Bible Ezekiel 22:2 German Bible Ezekiel 22:2 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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