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Ezekiel 22 — Sermon Preparation
Ezekiel catalogs Jerusalem's bloodshed, idolatry, and injustice, lamenting that no one stands in the gap to avert judgment. Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 22, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 390 / 174
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Ezekiel 22 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| תָּוֶךְ | tâvek | H8432 | 13 | bisection, centre |
| שָׁפַךְ | shâphak | H8210 | 8 | spill forth, expend |
| דָּם | dâm | H1818 | 8 | blood, juice |
| טָמֵא | ṭâmêʼ | H2930 | 6 | foul |
| נָתַךְ | nâthak | H5413 | 4 | flow forth, liquify |
| יְהֹוִה | Yᵉhôvih | H3069 | 5 | |
| אֲדֹנָי | ʼĂdônây | H136 | 5 | Lord |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 22, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“XXII A catalogue of the sins of Jerusalem, ver. 1-12. Punishment threatened, ver. 13-16. They are condemned as dross to the fire, ver. 17-22. All orders of men having contributed to the national guilt, must share in the punishment of it, ver. 23-31. 2. Judge - The question is doubled, to awaken the prophet more fully, and to quicken him to his work. 3. Her time - The time of ripeness in her sins, and of execution of judgments on her. To defile - For this does more defile them, and provoke God to wrath against them. 4. …”
— John Wesley, Wesley's Notes on the Whole Bible, on Ezekiel 22:2–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Ezek 22:19
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