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John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 5:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, &c.] The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; (see <242409>Jeremiah 24:9); this is repeated for the greater confirmation of it: an instruction; or “discipline”, or “correction”f94. The meaning is, that the Gentiles, seeing the judgments of God upon the Jews, would hereby learn righteousness, forsake their sins, amend their ways, and fear, the Lord: and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee; being amazed that such judgments should fall upon a people that had been so highly favoured of God; and at their stupidity, hardness, and incorrigibleness under them: when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes; a heap of words, not only denoting the certainty of divine judgments, but the greatness and fierceness of divine wrath, in the execution of them; that these were not fatherly chastisements, rebukes in love, but the effects of vindictive justice: I the Lord have spoken [it]; or those things, as the Arabic version; and as sure as I have spoken, I will do. The Targum is, “I the Lord have decreed in my word;” and so in (<260513>Ezekiel 5:13); where it is added, and I will confirm or accomplish.
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