Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 22:15
And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
15. Cf. ch. Eze 23:27-28, Eze 36:25; Eze 36:29.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
I will scatter thee, as the wind scatters chaff, among the heathen, the worst of the Babylonish vassals.
And disperse thee in the countries; doubled for certainty of the thing.
Consume thy filthiness out of thee: some take it for a threat by a fire, that shall consume the filthy sinners, and the filthy sins will cease; or else, that by removing them out of Jerusalem into captivity, and reducing them to a very low condition, they should not any more commit, but for ever loathe, their wickedness: some take it for a promise of purging mercy to better them, i.e. the remnant of them, when the rest are destroyed and wasted.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
15. consume thy filthiness out oftheethe object of God in scattering the Jews.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And I will scatter thee among the Heathen, and disperse thee in the countries,…. Not only cause them to be carried captive to some one place, as Babylon; but to be scattered and dispersed throughout the various provinces of it, and in other nations, as chaff is by the winds; signifying hereby the power by which it would be done; their weakness, who would not be able to hinder it; and the uncomfortable condition they would be in:
and will consume thy filthiness out of thee; by destroying some filthy persons, and reforming others; by bringing them by means of those afflictions to a sense of their sins, and to forsake them; and so would be refined as silver from its dross in a furnace: it may have a particular reference to their idolatry, that filthy sin, which they were cured of, and purged from, by their captivity, and to which they returned no more.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
15. This was literally fulfilled. (See also Eze 23:27.) The Jews’ love of idolatry and licentiousness was burnt out of them in the hot furnace of the Babylonian captivity. No nation to-day is so free from the social evil.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your filthiness out of you, and you will be profaned in yourself in the sight of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”
God will deal with them by scattering them among the nations and dispersing them through many countries. They knew what this would involve, either being led in chains to a foreign land, or fleeing as refugees to places where life would be hard and they might well find themselves unwelcome. Their wealth, such as it was, would be eaten up, and they would often face degradation. Furthermore it would tend to destroy their identity, and to make them a byword to those among whom they settled. And they would be away from the land of their inheritance.
But the purpose of all this was so as to make them face up to their sinfulness, was so that their filthiness might be taken out of them, burned out by their humiliating experiences, and so that they might recognise by what they underwent that they had diminished themselves by ceasing to be what God had intended for them, to be witnesses to the nations, they had ‘profaned’ themselves, thus hopefully bringing them to consider how they could restore themselves to their proper purpose as they came to recognise Who and What Yahweh really was.
‘And you will know that I am Yahweh.’ This is a constant theme in Ezekiel. This in the end was God’s purpose.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 22:15-16. And will come thy filthiness, &c. And I will bring the fame of thy filthiness whither thou hopedst not: Eze 22:16. And thou shalt be profaned, or defiled by it, in the sight of the heathen, who shall know, &c. Houbigant.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ver. 15. I will scatter thee. ] Deu 4:27 ; Deu 28:25 ; Deu 28:64 .
And will consume thy filthiness.
a Heb., Faciam ut integretur.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
I will scatter, &c. Reference to Pentateuch, (Deu 4:27; Deu 28:25, Deu 28:64). App-92. Compare Eze 12:14, Eze 12:15.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
scatter: Eze 5:12, Eze 12:14, Eze 12:15, Eze 34:6, Eze 36:19, Lev 26:33, Deu 4:27, Deu 28:25, Deu 28:64, Neh 1:8, Jer 15:4, Zec 7:14
consume: Eze 22:18, Eze 22:22, Eze 20:38, Eze 23:47, Eze 23:48, Eze 24:6-14, Isa 1:25, Zec 13:9, Mal 3:3, Mal 4:1, Mat 3:12, 1Pe 4:12
Reciprocal: 2Ki 25:11 – the rest Isa 4:4 – washed away Jer 29:18 – will deliver Eze 5:10 – the whole Eze 16:36 – Because Eze 23:27 – will I Eze 24:11 – that the filthiness
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 22:15. This verse has direct reference to the captivity. It was to be accomplished in the Babylonian Empire which is a singular word, but that great institution was composed of many countries, hence the mention of that subject in connection with the scattering among the heathen. Consume thy filthiness applies specifically to the cure of idolatry which the captivity was to accomplish.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
22:15 And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy {h} filthiness out of thee.
(h) I will thus take away the occasion of your wickedness.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The Lord promised (1) to scatter the people of Jerusalem among the other nations and to disperse them in other lands. He would (2) refine their sinful practices away. Some commentators claimed that after the exile idolatry was no longer a temptation for the Israelites. [Note: E.g., Cooper, p. 231; and Fisch, p. 155.] They would (3) not be able to maintain their holiness in exile, and the nations would regard them as unclean. Then they would know that Yahweh was the only true God. This was His primary purpose in judging them.