Ezekiel 22:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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2And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

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Cross References

Proverbs 14:34By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.

Jeremiah 30:15Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:1

Here are three separate messages which God entrusts the prophet to deliver concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and all to the same purport, to show them their sins and the judgments that were coming upon them for those sins. I. Here is a catalogue of their sins, by which they had exposed themselves to shame and for which God would bring them to ruin, ver. 1-16 . II. They are here compared to dross, and are condemned as dross to the fire, ver. 17-22 . III. All orders and degrees of men among them are here found guilty… Read the whole commentary →

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