John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 14:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, &c.] Or the plague, which is the destruction that wastes at noon day; this is from the Lord, and a sore judgment it is: and pour out my fury upon it in blood; or, “by blood”f189; by corrupting the blood, which is done when a man is seized with the pestilence. The Targum renders it, “with slaughter”; by slaying a great number of persons by that disease, as a token of fury and wrath, because of their transgressions. It may be rendered, “because of blood”f190; and so express the cause and reason of the judgment, the shedding of innocent blood: to cut off from it man and beast; man by the pestilence, and beast by some contagious distemper or another.

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