--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the LORD Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4 . Ih son of man. See note on Ezekiel 2:1 . judge = pronounce judgment on. See Ezekiel 20:4 ; Ezekiel 23:36 . bloody" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/ezekiel/22" --- **the LORD** Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 . Ih **son of man.** See note on [Ezekiel 2:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/1) . **judge** = pronounce judgment on. See [Ezekiel 20:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/4) ; [Ezekiel 23:36](../../../kjv/ezekiel/23/36) . **bloody city** = city of bloods: bloods (plural of Majesty) much blood. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Sebjeet), App-6 , for great bloodshed: referring to those put to death for the truth's sake by the wicked rulers. So in Cr [Ezekiel 3:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/3/4) , [Ezekiel 6:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/6/12) , Eze 6:27 . **abominations** = idolatries. **the Lord GOD.** Hebrew. *Adonai Jehovah* . See note on [Ezekiel 2:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/4) . **idols** = manufactured gods. **days.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the judgment inflicted in them. **come even unto.** Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "hast entered the time of". **have I made thee a reproach . . . mocking** . Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:37](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/37) ). These words occur nowhere else. App-92 . **heathen =** nations. **those** : i.e. those cities, **much vexed** = full of confusion. **Behold** . Figure of speech *Asteriemes.* App-6 . **princes** = leaders. **to their** = according to their. **set light by,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 27:16](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/27/16) ). **dealt by oppression . . . vexed** , &c. Ref to Pentateuch ([Exodus 22:21](../../../kjv/exodus/22/21) , [Exodus 22:22](../../../kjv/exodus/22/22) ). App-92 . **holy** . See note on [Exodus 3:6](../../../kjv/exodus/3/6) . **profaned My sabbaths** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 19:30](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/30) ). **men** . Hebrew, plural *of 'enesh.* App-14 . Hebrew men of slander. **carry tales,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 19:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/16) ). App-92 . **eat upon the mountains** : i.e. the idolatries practised on the mountains. Compare [Ezekiel 18:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/6) , **discovered** , &c. Ref to Pent, ([Leviticus 18:7](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/7) , [Leviticus 18:8](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/8) , [Leviticus 18:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/9) ; [Leviticus 20:11](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/11) , [Leviticus 20:17](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/17) ), App-92 . **set apart** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:13](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/13) ). App-92 . **committed abomination,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:20](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/20) ; [Leviticus 18:20](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/20) , [Leviticus 18:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/10) . [Deuteronomy 22:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/22/22) ). App-92 . Compare [Ezekiel 18:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/11) . **lewdly defiled** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:15](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/15) ; [Leviticus 20:12](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/12) ). **humbled his sister** . Ref, to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 18:9](../../../kjv/leviticus/18/9) ; [Leviticus 20:17](../../../kjv/leviticus/20/17) ). **taken gifts** , &c. Ref to Pentateuch ([Exodus 23:8](../../../kjv/exodus/23/8) . [Deuteronomy 16:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/16/19) ; [Deuteronomy 27:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/27/25) ). **taken usury,** &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 22:25](../../../kjv/exodus/22/25) .[Leviticus 26](../../../kjv/leviticus/26) . [Deuteronomy 23:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/23/19) ). App-92 . Compare [Ezekiel 18:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/8) . **hast forgotten Me.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Ezekiel 32:18](../../../kjv/ezekiel/32/18) ), **saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. **I have smitten Mine hand** . See note on [Ezekiel 21:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/17) . **have spoken it** . Compare [Ezekiel 21:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/17) ; and [Numbers 23:19](../../../kjv/numbers/23/19) . **I will scatter** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch, ([Deuteronomy 4:27](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/27) ; [Deuteronomy 28:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/25) , [Deuteronomy 28:64](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/64) ). App-92 . Compare [Ezekiel 12:14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/12/14) , [Ezekiel 12:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/12/15) . **shalt take thine inheritance** = shalt be profaned in thyself (or on thine own account). **brass** = copper, or bronze, **furnace** : or crucible. **dross.** Lead put into the crucible with gold or silver causes the baser metals to retire, or form *scoriae* or dross at the sides of the crucible, leaving the pure gold or silver in the middle. But here the silver itself becomes the dross. Compare [Ezekiel 22:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/12) . **I will leave you there.** The letter? (Pe-P) in ve hippihti, in being transferred from the ancient Hebrew into the modern square character, was probably mistaken for the? *(Nun = N),* being much alike. If so, "I will blow" became "I will leave"; and the words "you there" had *to* be necessarily supplied. By this change the correspondence of the two verses (20, 21) is restored: - [Ezekiel 22:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/20) . Gather . . . blow . . . melt: [Ezekiel 22:21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/21) . Gather . ., blow . . . melt. **not cleansed** = not to be rained upon. **nor rained upon** = nor to receive fruitful showers. **prophets.** Note the four classes here enumerated. See the Structure above; and verses: [Ezekiel 22:26](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/26) , [Ezekiel 22:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/28) , [Ezekiel 22:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/22/28) . **souls** . Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **put no difference** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 10:10](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/10) ; [Leviticus 11:47](../../../kjv/leviticus/11/47) ; [Leviticus 22:22](../../../kjv/leviticus/22/22) ). App-92 . **have vexed . . . have oppressed** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Exodus 22:21](../../../kjv/exodus/22/21) ; [Exodus 23:9](../../../kjv/exodus/23/9) . [Leviticus 19:33](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/33) , etc.) App-92 . **poor.** Heb: ani. See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) . **man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . **I found none** . 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