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Ezekiel 22 — Sermon Preparation

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.

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Hebrew words / lemmas
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classic sermon excerpts
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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.

Jonathan Edwards 3 Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“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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