Ezekiel 7:19

“They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed, &c.] As being of no use unto them to preserve them from famine and pestilence, and as being an hinderance to them in their flight from the enemy. Kimchi observes that this may be interpreted of their idols of gold and silver, which shall now be had in contempt by them, and cast away, when they shall find they cannot save them from ruin; (see <230220>Isaiah 2:20); their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord; these can neither deliver from temporal judgments nor from wrath to come; (see <201002>Proverbs 10:2 11:4); nor idols made of them: they shall not satisfy…”

“cast . . . silver in . . . streets--just retribution; they had abused their silver and gold by converting them into idols, "the stumbling-block of their iniquity" (Eze 14:3-4, that is, an occasion of sinning); so these silver and gold idols, so far from "being able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath" (see Pro 11:4), shall, in despair, be cast by them into the streets as a prey to the foe, by whom they shall be "removed" (GROTIUS translates as the Margin, "shall be despised as an unclean thing"); or rather, as suits the parallelism, "shall be put away from them" by the Jews [CALVIN]. "They (the silver and gold) shall not satisfy their souls," that is, their cravings of appetite…”

“Shall be removed - literally, “shall be an unclean thing” Leviticus 20:21; their gold shall be unclean and abominable in their eyes. The stumblingblock of their iniquity - See Ezekiel 3:20. Their gold and silver used in making images was the occasion of their sin. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Cast - That they may be the lighter to fly. Removed - Carried away into Babylon. Not satisfy - They shall afford them no comfort. Stumbling - block - This silver and gold they coveted immeasurably, and abused to pride, luxury, idolatry and oppression; this that they stumbled at and fell into sin, now they stumble at and fall into the deepest misery. Ezekiel 7:20”

“7:19 Even silver and gold, the traditional last resorts in times of crisis, would be unable to save or satisfy their owners. They would dispose of them like worthless trash (literally impurity), something hateful and disgusting that they could not wait to be rid of.”

“shall cast: Kg2 7:7, Kg2 7:8, Kg2 7:15; Pro 11:4; Isa 2:20, Isa 30:22; Zep 1:18; Mat 16:26 removed: Heb. for a separation, or uncleanness they shall not: Job 20:12-23; Psa 78:30, Psa 78:31; Ecc 5:10; Isa 55:2; Luk 12:19, Luk 12:20 it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity: or, their iniquity is their stumbling-block, Eze 14:3, Eze 14:4, Eze 14:7, Eze 44:12; Rom 11:9 Ezekiel 7:20”