Ezekiel 23:45 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

BSB

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ASV

And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

KJV

And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The judgment to be executed by the hands of their allies. Eze 23:45 The righteous men - Or, righteous men. The allies are so called as the instruments of God’s righteous judgments. Eze 23:48 To cease - Because they are stricken and consumed. Compare marginal reference. All women - i. e., all countries.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Assyrians that destroyed Samaria, the Chaldeans that destroyed Jerusalem, those were comparatively righteous, had a sense of justice between man and man and justly resented the treachery of the Jewish nation; however, they executed God's judgments, which, we are sure, are all righteous.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And all that is written for warning against the sins of idolatry, and confidence in an arm of flesh, and sinful leagues and confederacies with wicked people (which are the sins here meant by committing whoredom), is that others may hear and fear, and not sin after the similitude of the transgressions of Israel and Judah.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַאֲנָשִׁ֣ים	va.'a.na.Shim	and people	H582 →
צַדִּיקִ֗ם	tza.di.Kim	righteous	H6662 →
הֵ֚מָּה	He.mah	they	H1992 →
יִשְׁפְּט֣וּ	yish.pe.Tu	they will judge	H8199 →
אֽוֹתְהֶ֔ם	'ot.Hem	<obj.> them	H853 →
מִשְׁפַּט֙	mish.Pat	judgment of	H4941 →
נֹֽאֲפ֔וֹת	no.'a.Fot	adulteresses	H5003 →
וּמִשְׁפַּ֖ט	u.mish.Pat	and judgment of	H4941 →
שֹׁפְכ֣וֹת	sho.fe.Khot	[women who] shed	H8210 →
דָּ֑ם	Dam	blood	H1818 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
נֹֽאֲפֹת֙	no.'a.Fot	[are] adulteresses	H5003 →
הֵ֔נָּה	He.nah	they	H2007 →
וְדָ֖ם	ve.Dam	and blood	H1818 →
בִּֽידֵיהֶֽן׃ ס	Bi.dei.Hen	[is] on hands their	H3027 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
leads to
- John 8:4–5
  and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
- Deuteronomy 22:22–24
  If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
Through
Zechariah 1:6
But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according…
leads to
- Lamentations 2:17
  The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and…
- Ezekiel 12:25–28
  because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass,…
- Deuteronomy 28:15
  If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Through
Hosea 6:5
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
leads to
- Jeremiah 23:29
  “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”
- Jeremiah 1:10
  See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
- Jeremiah 5:14
  Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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