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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 13:19 - Strong Concordance
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| Eze 13:19 |
Strong Concordance |
And will ye pollute [02490] me among my people [05971] for handfuls [08168] of barley [08184] and for pieces [06595] of bread [03899], to slay [04191] the souls [05315] that should not die [04191], and to save [02421] the souls [05315] alive [02421] that should not live [02421], by your lying [03576] to my people [05971] that hear [08085] your lies [03577]? |
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King James |
And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
handfuls--expressing the paltry gain for which they bartered immortal souls (compare Mic 3:5, Mic 3:11; Heb 12:16). They "polluted" God by making His name the cloak under which they uttered falsehoods.
among my people--an aggravation of their sin, that they committed it "among the people" whom God had chosen as peculiarly His own, and among whom He had His temple. It would have been a sin to have done so even among the Gentiles, who knew not God; much more so among the people of God (compare Pro 28:21).
slay . . . souls that should not die, &c.--to predict the slaying or perdition of the godly whom I will save. As true ministers are said to save and slay their hearers, according to the spirit respectively in which these receive their message (Co2 2:15-16), so false ministers imitate them; but they promise safety to those on the broad way to ruin and predict ruin to those on the narrow way of God.
my people that hear your lies--who are therefore wilfully deceived, so that their guilt lies at their own door (Joh 3:19). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Pollute me - Pretending my name for what I never spake. My people - My own people. Handfuls of barley - For a mean reward. To slay - You denounce evil to the best, whom God wilt keep alive. To save - Declaring safety, to the worst, whom God will destroy. |
19 And [1161] this [3778] is [2076] the condemnation [2920], that [3754] light [5457] is come [2064] into [1519] the world [2889], and [2532] men [444] loved [25] darkness [4655] rather [3123] than [2228] light [5457], because [1063] their [846] deeds [2041] were [2258] evil [4190].
15 For [3754] we are [2070] unto God [2316] a sweet savour [2175] of Christ [5547], in [1722] them that are saved [4982], and [2532] in [1722] them that perish [622]:
16 To [3739] the one [3303] we are the savour [3744] of death [2288] unto [1519] death [2288]; and [1161] to the other [3739] the savour [3744] of life [2222] unto [1519] life [2222]. And [2532] who [5101] is sufficient [2425] for [4314] these things [5023]?
21 To have respect [05234] of persons [06440] is not good [02896]: for for a piece [06595] of bread [03899] that man [01397] will transgress [06586].
16 Lest [3361] there be any [5100] fornicator [4205], or [2228] profane person [952], as [5613] Esau [2269], who [3739] for [473] one [3391] morsel of meat [1035] sold [591] his [846] birthright [4415].
11 The heads [07218] thereof judge [08199] for reward [07810], and the priests [03548] thereof teach [03384] for hire [04242], and the prophets [05030] thereof divine [07080] for money [03701]: yet will they lean [08172] upon the LORD [03068], and say [0559], Is not the LORD [03068] among [07130] us? none evil [07451] can come [0935] upon us.
5 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] concerning the prophets [05030] that make my people [05971] err [08582], that bite [05391] with their teeth [08127], and cry [07121], Peace [07965]; and he that putteth [05414] not into their mouths [06310], they even prepare [06942] war [04421] against him.