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Ezekiel 22:15

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I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 15

Here are three separate messages which God entrusts the prophet to deliver concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and all to the same purport, to show them their sins and the judgments that were coming upon them for those sins. I. Here is a catalogue of their sins, by which they had exposed themselves to shame and for which God would bring them to ruin (v. 1-16). II. They are here compared to dross, and are condemned as dross to the fire (Eze 22:17-22). III. All orders and degrees of men among them are here found guilty of the neglect of the duty of their place and of having contributed to the national guilt, which therefore, since none appeared as intercessors, they must all expect to share in the punishment of (Eze 22:23-31).

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Strong's Concordancev. 15

פּוּץ (pûwts, H6327) — to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) גּוֹי (gôwy, H1471) — a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight… זָרָה (zârâh, H2219) — to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, H776) — the earth (at large, or partitively a land) תָּמַם (tâmam, H8552) — to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive טֻמְאָה (ṭumʼâh, H2932) — religious impurity

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Nehemiah 1:8rank 5

Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,

Zechariah 7:14rank 4

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”

Ezekiel 22:22rank 4

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted within the city. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have poured out My wrath upon you.’”

Deuteronomy 4:27rank 4

Then the 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.

Leviticus 26:33rank 3

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Ezekiel 36:19rank 3

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds.

Ezekiel 23:27rank 2

So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’

Jeremiah 15:4rank 2

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.

Zechariah 13:9rank 2

This third I will bring through the fire;I will refine them like silverand 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.’”

Ezekiel 20:38rank 2

And I will purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me. I will bring them out of the land in which they dwell, but they will not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

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