“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’
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Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’ Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’
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“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’
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Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
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'Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Wherefore say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD. Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood; and shall ye possess the land?
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?
Cross-references (59)
- Isaiah 51:2 (v24) Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
- Ezekiel 33:27 (v24) “You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give he…
- Acts 7:5 (v24) He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to…
- Jeremiah 40:7 (v24) Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah…
- Ezekiel 36:4 (v24) therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the…
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- Luke 3:8 (v24) Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you…
- Genesis 9:4 (v25) But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.
- Deuteronomy 12:16 (v25) Only you shall not eat the blood. You shall pour it out on the earth like water.
- Jeremiah 7:9-10 (v25) Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known, then come…
- Jeremiah 39:10 (v24) But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and…
- Matthew 3:9 (v24) Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these…
- Romans 4:12 (v24) He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father…
- Ezekiel 18:6 (vv25–26) and has not eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,…
- Genesis 27:40 (v26) You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from…
- Leviticus 3:17 (v25) “ ‘It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.’ ”
- Ezekiel 5:3-4 (v24) You shall take of it a few in number, and bind them in the folds of your robe. Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle…
- Ezekiel 11:15 (v24) “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the…
- Ezekiel 22:6 (v25) “ ‘ “Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
- Ezekiel 22:27 (v25) Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
- Ezekiel 34:2 (v24) “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the…
- Micah 2:1-2 (v26) Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of…
- Micah 3:11 (v24) Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh,…
- Zephaniah 3:3 (v26) Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
- John 8:33 (v24) They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
- John 8:39 (v24) They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
- Romans 9:7 (v24) Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (v24) For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they…
- Ezekiel 18:15 (vv25–26) who hasn’t eaten on the mountains, hasn’t lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hasn’t defiled his neighbor’s wife,
- Leviticus 7:26-27 (v25) You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings. Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul…
- Leviticus 17:10-14 (v25) “ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face…
- Leviticus 18:25-30 (v26) The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. You therefore shall keep my statutes and…
- Leviticus 19:26 (v25) “ ‘You shall not eat any meat with the blood still in it. You shall not use enchantments, nor practice sorcery.
- Leviticus 20:13 (v26) “ ‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood…
- Leviticus 20:22 (v26) “ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not…
- Deuteronomy 4:19 (v25) and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn…
- Deuteronomy 4:25-26 (v26) When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a…
- Deuteronomy 29:18-23 (v26) lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of…
- Joshua 23:15-16 (v26) It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the…
- 1 Samuel 2:30 (v26) “Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But…
- 1 Samuel 14:32-34 (v25) and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the…
- 1 Kings 11:5-7 (v26) For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. Solomon did that which…
- Psalms 24:4 (v25) He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
- Psalms 50:16-20 (v26) But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, since you hate…
- Psalms 94:20-21 (v26) Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? They gather themselves together against…
- Jeremiah 5:8-9 (v26) They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says…
- Jeremiah 44:15-19 (v25) Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the…
- Ezekiel 9:9 (v25) Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full…
- Ezekiel 18:11-12 (v26) or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife, has wronged the poor…
- Ezekiel 18:12 (v25) has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed…
- Ezekiel 22:9 (v25) Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
- Ezekiel 22:9-11 (v26) Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you. In you have…
- Acts 15:20-21 (v25) but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.…
- Acts 15:29 (v25) that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep…
- Acts 21:25 (v25) But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep…
- 1 Peter 4:3 (v26) For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies,…
- Revelation 21:8 (v26) But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in…
- Revelation 21:27 (v26) There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv24–26 Thus the wicked think themselves more worthy to enjoy…
Thus the wicked think themselves more worthy to enjoy God’s promises than the Saints of God, to whom they were made: and would bind God to be subject to them, though they would not be bound to him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv24–26 Eze 33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those…
Eze 33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we [are] many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Ver. 24. They that inhabit those wastes of the land of lsrael.] Those poor few now left in the land. {2Ki 25:12; 2Ki 25:22 Jer 40:5-6} Surely they are poor, they are foolish, they have lost the fruit of their affliction; Miserrimi facti sunt et pessimi permanent, as Augustine saith of some in his time, They are nevertheless wicked for being wretched.
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Speak.] Bubbles of words. Antiquum obtinent. They are no changelings, not at all crest fallen.
Abraham was one.] {a} And no such one but that we may match him. Thus these proud hypocrites hit up their counter for a thousand pounds, and stand upon their comparisons without all shame or sense.
The land is given to us.] And here we will hold our own, for we are well worthy.
{a} Verba faecis populi recitat. Abrahae se conferre, imo praeferre audebant.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv24–26 They that inhabit; who were left behind, having either…
They that inhabit; who were left behind, having either hid themselves, but now come out of their holes, or returned from neighbour countries, whither they fled, or permitted by the conqueror to stay and plant vineyards.
Wastes; places once very fruitful and abounding with people, but now by the spoil of the soldiers emptied of inhabitants. and made as a desolate wilderness.
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Speak, saying; thus think and speak; thus with vain reasonings they deceive them. selves.
He inherited the land; our father had hereditary right to all this land when but one, and he multiplied to a great company, and so they possessed the land; we children of Abraham, though diminished, are many, and the Divine goodness will surely appear then, and continue to us both right and possession, and we shall fill the land, and recover our former state and privileges.
Is given us; it was given by promise to us the seed, as well as to our progenitor; nay more, it is given us in possession, we dwell in it, when Abraham had not one foot of it in his possession.
For inheritance; the perpetual inheritance is ours. Thus with vain, fallacious arguments they cheat one another.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv24–26 You trust in it, and think to support yourselves…
You trust in it, and think to support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it by that means. So the Targum,
"you stand in your strength:''
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ye work abomination; that which is abominable to God, and not fit to be named among men; Jarchi interprets it of sodomy: the word is in the feminine gender, and may be rendered, "ye women work abomination"; referring to that unnatural lust the apostle speaks of, Rom 1:26 so Ben Melech:
and ye defile everyone his neighbour's wife; were guilty of adultery; and which was so common, that scarce any were free from it, and therefore is charged upon the whole body of them:
and shall ye possess the land? such vile creatures as these, guilty of the abominations for which the land formerly spewed out its ancient inhabitants, the Canaanites? and the present possessors might expect the same, as being very unworthy inheritors of it, whatever high thoughts they might have of themselves.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv24, 26 They - Who were left behind, now come out…
They - Who were left behind, now come out of their holes, or returned from neighbouring countries, or permitted by the conqueror to stay and plant vineyards. Wastes - Places once fruitful and abounding with people, but now, made a desolate wilderness. He inherited - Our father had a right to all this land, when but one; we his children though diminished, are many, and the divine goodness will surely continue to us both right and possession. Is given - It was given by promise to us, the seed, as well as to our progenitor; nay more, 'tis given us in possession, whereas Abraham had not one foot of it.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv24–26 Verse 24. Abraham was one] If he was called…
Verse 24. Abraham was one] If he was called to inherit the land when he was alone, and had the whole to himself, why may we not expect to be established here, who are his posterity, and are many? They wished to remain in the land and be happy after the Chaldeans had carried the rest away captives.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv24–25 Eze 33:24. They that inhabit those wastes of the…
Eze 33:24. They that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel — They that are left behind in the land, that is now wasted with fire and sword: see the margin. Speak, saying, Abraham was one, and inherited the land — Had the privilege of dwelling and feeding his flocks in it; as if he had said, ‘If Abraham, being only a single person, had the whole country of Judea given him, there is much greater reason to conclude, that God will preserve the possession of it to us, who are a numerous part of Abraham’s posterity. These men speak after the vain manner of the Jews, who fondly presume that they have a right to all the promises made to Abraham, without considering the vast difference between them and Abraham, both in faith and practice. The appellation of one is given to Abraham in other parts of Scripture, because he was singled out from the rest of his family, to be the original, or head, of the Jewish nation.” — Lowth.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv24–26 Places. He has answered those who despaired, ver. 10.…
Places. He has answered those who despaired, ver. 10. Now he turns to the presumptuous, who expected to be treated like Abraham, though they did not imitate his virtues. (Calmet) --- They perhaps entertained these sentiments before the death of Godolias, thinking to establish themselves in the land. Afterwards the prophet Jeremias could not prevail on them to remain, though God promised them security.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv24–26 they that inhabit . . . wastes of .…
they that inhabit . . . wastes of . . . Israel--marking the blindness of the fraction of Jews under Gedaliah who, though dwelling amidst regions laid waste by the foe, still cherished hopes of deliverance, and this without repentance.
Abraham was one . . . but we are many--If God gave the land for an inheritance to Abraham, who was but one (Isa 51:2), much more it is given to us, who, though reduced, are still many. If he, with 318 servants, was able to defend himself amid so many foes, much more shall we, so much more numerous, retain our own. The grant of the land was not for his sole use, but for his numerous posterity.
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inherited the land--not actually possessed it (Act 7:5), but had the right of dwelling and pasturing his flocks in it [GROTIUS]. The Jews boasted similarly of their Abrahamic descent in Mat 3:9 and Joh 8:39.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv24–26 24. Regarding those remaining in the land even before…
24. Regarding those remaining in the land even before the fall of the city, cf. Eze_11:5-12; Eze_11:14-21; Jeremiah 24. Those remaining in the land express their confident hopes. Though reduced in numbers they are still many in comparison of the single individual Abraham. Yet he was multiplied in such a way as to take possession of the land; much more may they hope yet to assert their claims to it. They perhaps hardly argued on mere natural probabilities; they felt themselves the heirs of the promises made to Abraham, and in spite of disasters hoped that Jehovah would fulfil them to them. They display the same temper as the people had always shewn; they have a faith in Jehovah but no knowledge of what Jehovah is (Amo_5:14; Hos_4:1; Jer_4:22; Jer_5:2; Jer_5:4). Another prophet of this age applies the strange history of Abraham and his multiplication to comfort “the few men of Israel” who followed after righteousness, Isa_51:2.
inhabit those wastes] The ruined cities chiefly, Eze_33:27; but cf. Eze_36:4.
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the land is given us] Words of confident anticipation.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv24–26 (24) Inhabit those wastes.—It is said in 2Ki_25:12; 2Ki_25:22;…
(24) Inhabit those wastes.—It is said in 2Ki_25:12; 2Ki_25:22; Jer_52:16, that the poor of the people were left in the land for vine-dressers and for husband. men, and that these were joined by fugitive Jews from Moab and Ammon and other places. It is to these that the present part of this prophecy (Eze_33:23-29) is addressed, and it is plain that the murder of Gedaliah, and consequent flight into Egypt, had not yet taken place.
Abraham was one . . . we are many.—The argument used by these people was a simple one: the land was promised to Abraham and his seed in perpetuity. He was but one, and the promise was fulfilled; we, his seed, are many, and it cannot fail us. This disposition to rely upon their descent from Abraham was characteristic of the Jews in all ages (see Mat_3:9; Joh_8:33-39). The same tendency to trust in the external privileges given them is apt to be found in all ages among those whose hearts are alienated from God. These Jews, to avoid the force of the prophet’s reproofs, passed from one subterfuge to another. First it was that God would not abandon His holy city and Temple; then that the judgments were so far in the future that they need cause no present alarm; now, when these warnings had all been fulfilled, they clung to the fact that the land was theirs by promise, forgetting the conditions which had been attached from the first to its enjoyment.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv24–26 They that inhabit thou wastes of the land. The…
They that inhabit thou wastes of the land. The utterance that follows was probably the direct result of what Ezekiel heard from the messenger. He it was who reported the boastful claims of those who had been left in the land by the Chaldean armies the "bad figs" of Jeremiah"s parable, the least worthy representatives of the seed of Abraham. the assassins of Gedaliah, (Jer_41:1, Jer_41:2) who in these "waste places," the dens and eaves in which they found a refuge (or, it may be, the phrase describes the condition of the whole country), led the lives of outlaws and bandits. The very words of their boast are reproduced: "Abraham, when he was yet but one, received the premise of inheritance. We are comparatively many, and are left as the true seed of Abraham. (comp. Mat_3:9) The land is ours, and we will take possession of the estates of the exiles.
The right of the many.
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The idea seems to be though Abraham was but one man, yet he was promised Canaan; much more, then, must his descendants have a right to the land, since they now form a numerous nation. This plea is urged against the threat that the Jews shall be expelled from their land. It is not difficult to discover its hollowness. But it is propped up by common fallacies against which we need to be on our guard.
I THE PLEA. It stands on two grounds.
1. That children have a right to their fathers property. This is recognized in law and equity. If a man dies intestate, his family inherits his goods as a matter of course. The same is looked for in regard to the special privileges of Divine grace.
2. That numbers multiply rights. If Abraham had a right to the land, much more must a whole nation of his descendants hold that right. This democratic age glories in the rights of numbers. No doubt the people have rights as against privileged monopolists. Thus it may well be urged in an over-populous country, that the people have certain rights in the land, that there must be some limit at least to landlord monopoly. The same democratic feeling passes over to religion. Christ preached to the people, and "the common people heard him gladly". (Mar_12:37) Hence the idea that privilege in religion is transferred from the monopolist to the multitude, from priest to people, from Israel to the world.
II THE FALLACY.
1. The descendants of Abraham may not be his true children. It was a mistake to make much of descent from the great ancestor. That only condemned the more heavily the sins of his unworthy descendants. John the Baptist rebuked this mistake when he told the proud Jews that God was able to raise up children to Abraham from the very stones of the wilderness. (Mat_3:9) St. Paul pointed out that not all who were of the stock of Israel could be accounted the true Israel of God. (Rom_9:6) They are Abraham"s children who inherit Abraham"s faith.
2. Where no right exists, the number of claimants will not create it. The right to Canaan was only conferred by God"s grace, and only held on condition of faithfulness. It could be and it was withdrawn when that condition was broken. The number who claimed the right could not affect the question as to the desert of the people to retain it. No one merits the kingdom of heaven. If millions claim the privileges of the kingdom, the millions have no right to it. The number of sinners creates no fight to have the pardon of sin. If the whole world deserves destruction, the whole world may be destroyed. Its numbers will not save it. If we appeal to God"s grace, that applies to a single individual. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice. He has infinite love for the most obscure of his subjects. Therefore the multiplication of the number of the guilty will not arouse his pity in a new and special manner.
3. Each individual must seek individual grace. We cannot be made citizens of the kingdom of heaven en masse. We must go single file through the strait gate.
4. There is room in the grace of God for the greatest number. The multitude of applicants can never be too great for infinite bounty. The many can claim no rights. But the gospel is for them, not for the few. Christ came to give his life a ransom "for many". (Mat_20:28)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v25 General Information:
General Information:
Yahweh continues speaking to Ezekiel about the people who were living in the ruins of Israel.
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You eat blood
It is implied that they eat blood by eating meat that still has blood in it. Yahweh had commanded them to drain out the blood. AT: "You eat meat with blood in it" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
you lift up your eyes towards your idols
"you look to your idols" This is an idiom. AT: "you worship your idols" (See: Idiom)
you pour out people's blood
Here "blood" represents a person's life. To pour out blood is an idiom that means to murder. AT: "you murder people" (See: Metonymy and Idiom)
Should you really possess the land?
Yahweh used this question to rebuke the people. AT: "You should not possess this land!" or "You do not deserve this land!" (See: Rhetorical Question)
You have depended on your swords
Here "swords" represent doing violent things. AT: "You have committed violent acts with your swords to get what you want" (See: Metonymy)
done disgusting things
"done things that I hate very much"
each man defiles his neighbor's wife
It is implied that they defile their neighbor's wives by sleeping with them. AT: "each man sleeps with his neighbor's wife" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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