New English Translation
Ezekiel 22:15
15I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.
Ezekiel 22:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
- New International Version (NIV)I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you.
Context of Ezekiel 22:15
13“‘See, I strike my hands together at the dishonest profit you have made, and at the bloodshed they have done among you. 14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it! I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. 16You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will know that I am the Lord.’” 17The word of the Lord came to me:
Read all of Ezekiel 22Ezekiel 22:15 word by word
וַהֲפִיצוֹתִ֤י אוֹתָךְ֙ בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם וְזֵרִיתִ֖יךְ בָּאֲרָצ֑וֹת וַהֲתִמֹּתִ֥י טֻמְאָתֵ֖ךְ מִמֵּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 22:15
- Ezekiel 5:12A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 12:14All his retinue – his attendants and his troops – I will scatter to every wind; I will unleash a sword behind them.
- Ezekiel 34:6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
- Ezekiel 36:19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
- Leviticus 26:33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.
- Deuteronomy 4:27Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:25“The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Nehemiah 1:8Please recall the word you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the nations.
- Jeremiah 15:4I will make all the people in all the kingdoms of the world horrified at what has happened to them because of what Hezekiah’s son Manasseh, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.”
- Zechariah 7:14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”
- Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
- Ezekiel 20:38I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 23:47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.
- Ezekiel 24:6“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed, the pot whose rot is in it, whose rot has not been removed from it! Empty it piece by piece. No lot has fallen on it.
- Isaiah 1:25I will attack you; I will purify your metal with flux. I will remove all your slag.
- Zechariah 13:9Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, ‘These are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
Commentaries on Ezekiel 22:15
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-16God first showed his anger with the image of clapping his hands. This action expressed strong displeasure. Then he announced that he would pour out judgment. The first judgment was exile. God would scatter the people of Judah among other nations. Through this scattering, God would remove their wickedness and cleanse them from sin.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. consume thy filthiness out of thee--the object of God in scattering the Jews.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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