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Ezekiel 22:15
15I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will scatter you among the nations and purge you of your wickedness.
Context of Ezekiel 22:15
13“ ‘I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. 14Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. 16When you have been defiled in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the Lord.’ ” 17Then the word of the Lord came to me:
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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 the plague or perish by famine inside you; a third will fall by the sword outside your walls; and a third I will scatter to the winds and pursue with drawn sword.
- Ezekiel 12:14I will scatter to the winds all those around him—his staff and all his troops—and I will pursue them with drawn sword.
- Ezekiel 34:6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them.
- Ezekiel 36:19I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered through the countries; I judged them according to their conduct and their actions.
- Leviticus 26:33I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins.
- Deuteronomy 4:27The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:25The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth.
- Nehemiah 1:8“Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- Jeremiah 15:4I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 7:14‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’ ”
- Ezekiel 22:18“Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver.
- Ezekiel 20:38I will purge you of those who revolt and rebel against me. Although I will bring them out of the land where they are living, yet they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
- Ezekiel 23:47The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
- Ezekiel 24:6“ ‘For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now encrusted, whose deposit will not go away! Take the meat out piece by piece in whatever order it comes.
- Isaiah 1:25I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities.
- Zechariah 13:9This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our 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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