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Ezekiel 22:22

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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.’”

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 22

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. 22

כֶּסֶף (keçeph, H3701) — silver (from its pale color); by implication, money הִתּוּךְ (hittûwk, H2046) — a melting תָּוֶךְ (tâvek, H8432) — a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre כּוּר (kûwr, H3564) — a pot or furnace (as if excavated) נָתַךְ (nâthak, H5413) — to flow forth (literally or figuratively); by implication, to liquify יָדַע (yâdaʻ, H3045) — to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses,… יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, H3068) — Jehovah, Jewish national name of God שָׁפַךְ (shâphak, H8210) — to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also… חֵמָה (chêmâh, H2534) — heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)

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Ezekiel 20:8rank 4

But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:33rank 4

As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will rule over you.

Hosea 5:10rank 3

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

Ezekiel 22:16rank 2

And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

Ezekiel 22:31rank 2

So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Revelation of John 16:1rank 2

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

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