Ezekiel 22

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Book of Ezekiel 30:13–18 in an English manuscript from early 13th century, MS. Bodl. Or. 62, fol. 59a. A Latin translation appears in the margins with further interlineations above the Hebrew.
Book Book of Ezekiel
Hebrew Bible part Nevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part7
Category Latter Prophets
Christian Bible part Old Testament
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Ezekiel 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 20 to 24 contain a series of "predictions regarding the fall of Jerusalem", [1] and this chapter contains three separate prophecies centering on the inevitable punishment due to the city's guilt. [2]

Contents

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 32 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008). [3]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century). [4] [lower-alpha 1]

Structure

The chapter has three divisions. [1] [6] The first contains a denunciation of the various sins of Jerusalem coupled with a promise of judgment (verses 1–16). The prophet then compares Jerusalem to metal filled with impurities, and promises that God will purge the impurities by burning (17-22). Ezekiel then justifies the judgment against Jerusalem in terms of wrongful acts committed by various leaders, including prophets, priests, and the nobility (23-31).

Verse 2

“Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! [7]

The phrase "Son of man" (Hebrew: בן־אדם ḇen - ’āḏām ) is used 93 times in the book of Ezekiel to address the prophet. [8] Each of the three sections in this chapter commence with God's word to the "son of man" (verses 2, 18 and 24).

Verse 18

Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me;
they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace;
they have become dross from silver. [9]

This verse introduces the figure of a smelting furnace. [1]

Verses 23-31

An indictment of "all the classes of the nation": the royal house (verse 25), the priests (verse 26), the princes (verse 27), the prophets (verse 28) and the people of the land (verse 29). [1]

See also

Notes

  1. Ezekiel is missing from the extant Codex Sinaiticus. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Davidson, A. B. (1893), Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Ezekiel 20, accessed 28 November 2019
  2. Clements 1996, p. 100.
  3. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  4. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  5. Shepherd, Michael (2018). A Commentary on the Book of the Twelve: The Minor Prophets. Kregel Exegetical Library. Kregel Academic. p. 13. ISBN   978-0825444593.
  6. Section headings in the New King James Version
  7. Ezekiel 22:2 NKJV
  8. Bromiley 1995, p. 574.
  9. Ezekiel 22:18 NKJV
  10. Brown, Briggs & Driver 1994 "סִיג"
  11. Gesenius 1979 "סִיג"
  12. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1209-1211 Hebrew Bible. ISBN   978-0195288810

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