{"id":20607,"date":"2022-09-24T08:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-719\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:35:35","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-719\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 7:19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 19<\/strong>. Amidst the famine they cast their silver and gold away in the streets, it cannot procure them food. On the horrors of famine during the siege of Jerusalem, comp. <span class='bible'>Lam 4:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 4:8-10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 2:11-12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 2:19-20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 1:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> gold shall be removed<\/em> ] Rather: <strong> shall be a thing unclean<\/strong>, lit. uncleanness. The term refers properly to female impurity, and is the strongest expression for &ldquo;object of abhorrence;&rdquo; cf. ch. <span class='bible'>Eze 36:17<\/span>, where the people&rsquo;s idolatries are in Jehovah&rsquo;s eyes as a woman&rsquo;s impurity. <span class='bible'>Lev 20:21<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> is the stumblingblock<\/em> ] <strong> hath been.<\/strong> Their gold and silver has been to them something on which they have stumbled and fallen, i.e. a cause of their sinning; cf. ch. <span class='bible'>Eze 14:3<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eze 44:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>Shall be removed &#8211; <\/B>literally, shall be an unclean thing <span class='bible'>Lev 20:21<\/span>; their gold shall be unclean and abominable in their eyes.<\/P> <P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\"><B>The stumblingblock of their iniquity &#8211; <\/B>See <span class='bible'>Eze 3:20<\/span>. Their gold and silver used in making images was the occasion of their sin.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> Verse <span class='bible'>19<\/span>. <I><B>They shall cast their silver in the streets<\/B><\/I>] Their riches can be of no use; as in a time of famine there is no necessary of life to be <I>purchased<\/I>, and <I>gold<\/I> and <I>silver cannot fill<\/I> <I>their bowels<\/I>.<\/P> <P> <\/P> <P> <I><B>It is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.<\/B><\/I>] They loved riches, and placed in the possession of them their supreme happiness. Now they find a <I>pound<\/I> of <I>gold<\/I> not worth an <I>ounce<\/I> of <I>bread<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Adam Clarke&#8217;s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>They shall cast their silver; <\/B>either, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 1. The Jews themselves, that they be the lighter to flee, and might stop the pursuer, whom they hope silver may stop a while, and give them some space to get away; or, might occasion quarrels among soldiers of fortune, which might set them one against another till the distressed Jews could get away from them all. Or, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 2. The Chaldeans, who in this day of their own rage and Gods wrath against the Jews did (as the Medes and Persians shall, <span class='bible'>Isa 13:17<\/span>) not regard silver or gold, <span class='bible'>Pro 11:4<\/span>. Or, <\/P> <P STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.85em;text-indent: -0.85em\"> 3. Because Nebuchadnezzar might possibly reserve it all to himself, having those vast thoughts of enlarging his empire by arms; which could not be done without great treasures. <\/P> <P><B>Removed; <\/B>carried away into Babylon, to the royal treasury; or laid aside as despised, when offered a ransom of their life; or hid by the Jews in polluted places, which perhaps the Jew might think would be securest from searching, forasmuch as the Chaldean knew their law forbade them to touch any unclean tiring. <\/P> <P><B>Silver and gold shall not be able to deliver them:<\/B> this is the sum of it, these treasures shall stand them in no stead. If the self-flattering Jews should think much silver and gold might ransom their life when the city is taken, the prophet removes this confidence, and tells them they should not have enough to buy bread to fill their own bellies. <\/P> <P><B>It is the stumbling-block of their iniquity; <\/B>this silver and gold they valued too much, coveted immeasurably, abused to pride, luxury, idolatry, and oppression; this that they stumbled at and fell into sin, this now they stumble at and fall into deepest misery and danger. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>19. cast . . . silver in . . .streets<\/B>just retribution; they had abused their silver and goldby converting them into idols, &#8220;the stumbling-block of theiriniquity&#8221; (<span class='bible'>Eze 14:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 14:4<\/span>,that is, an occasion of sinning); so these silver and gold idols, sofar from &#8220;being able to deliver them in the day of the Lord&#8217;swrath&#8221; (see <span class='bible'>Pr 11:4<\/span>),shall, in despair, be cast by them into the streets as a prey to thefoe, by whom they shall be &#8220;removed&#8221; (GROTIUStranslates as the <I>Margin,<\/I> &#8220;shall be despised as an<I>unclean<\/I> thing&#8221;); or rather, as suits the parallelism,&#8221;shall be put away from them&#8221; <I>by the Jews<\/I> [CALVIN].&#8221;They (the silver and gold) shall not satisfy their souls,&#8221;that is, their cravings of appetite and other needs.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed<\/strong>,&#8230;. 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 <span class='bible'>Isa 2:20<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord<\/strong>; these can neither deliver from temporal judgments nor from wrath to come; see <span class='bible'>Pr 10:2<\/span>; nor idols made of them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their bowels<\/strong>; gold and silver cannot be eaten; these will not satisfy the craving appetite, nor fill the hungry belly: the words show that the famine would be so great, that bread could not be got for any money; and therefore gold and silver would be of no avail; since they could not be fed upon, or give any satisfaction to a famishing soul; nor could idols of gold and silver neither:<\/p>\n<p><strong>because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity<\/strong>; what was the occasion of their iniquity, covetousness, and idolatry, at which they stumbled, and fell into sin, and so into punishment for it.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FURTHER JUDGMENTS DESCRIBED IN THE LAND, v. 19-27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 19 foretold <\/strong>that they of Israel, in the day of the enemies invasion, would throw their silver into the streets and their gold would be discarded, as if unclean or polluted. It was not because they despised their gods of silver and gold, or their treasures, so much as to avoid the cruelty of their enemies, if they entered into their houses and found the silver and gold hidden there, <span class='bible'>Eze 44:12<\/span>. But their treasures of silver and gold would not: 1) Save or deliver them from the day of the wrath of the Lord, or 2) Satisfy their weary souls, or 3) Fill their stomach with nourishment because it had been used for idolatrous worship, to gratify the lusts of their flesh, <span class='bible'>1Jn 2:15-17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Pro 11:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Zep 1:18<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 20 indicates <\/strong>that the ornaments that God had set in His tabernacle and temple, to symbolize His majesty, had been surrounded by images and statutes of detestable abominations that had been brought as idols into His Holy temple, <span class='bible'>Jer 7:20<\/span>. Because of such contemptible disregard for His law, He therefore vowed their coming calamity, <span class='bible'>Exo 20:4<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Psa 115:4-9<\/span>; See also <span class='bible'>Eze 24:21<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 21 confirms <\/strong>that the Lord purposed to give the temple and city of Jerusalem into the hands of the strangers, barbarous and savage nations, (heathen) as a prey, to be further profaned, polluted, and desecrated, and their glory destroyed, because of their father&#8217;s willful sins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 22 declares <\/strong>that the Lord would also turn His face or blessings and approval, away from the temple and the city of Jerusalem, as also described <span class='bible'>Isa 59:2<\/span>. His &#8220;secret place&#8221;, or Holy of Holies of the temple, where He had long appeared in His Shekinah glory to bless Israel, would soon be wholly desecrated, polluted by plundering heathen bandits or robbers who would enter it and take away the golden instruments of worship and sacrifice. Such was to come as a Divine chastisement upon the people of Jerusalem because of their idolatrous estrangement from God and His laws, <span class='bible'>Dan 5:3-4<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 23 <\/strong>relates that chains were to be made for absolute subjugation of the religious and political leaders of Judah and Israel, to carry them away captive into Babylon and Assyria, as bloody criminals are bound, to be controlled and humiliated in spirit. <span class='bible'>Jer 27:2<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 40:1<\/span>. Their Holy city of Jerusalem had come to be a den of thieves, robbers, bandits, and murderers, filled with violence, so that the Lord was to withdraw His presence, as also described, <span class='bible'>Mic 3:10-12<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 51:9<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 24<\/strong> warns that the Lord would bring the worst or most notorious of the heathen upon Israel, <span class='bible'>Hab 1:6<\/span>. The rude, rough, evil tempered, most inhumane, and blood-thirsty of the Chaldeans were to sweep into and over Israel and Judah, seizing their houses, justifying the counsel given them, verses 12, 13. God asserted that it was He who would make the &#8220;pomp,&#8221; outward show of their leaders to cease and &#8220;their&#8221; holy places, now so polluted, that He would own them as &#8220;His&#8221; no longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 25 continues <\/strong>warning that they of Israel and Judah should be cut off from peace and glory, not find it, even when desiring it, because of their day of earthly suffering for their chosen path of disobedience to God, <span class='bible'>1Th 5:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 26 describes <\/strong>the coming of mischief upon mischief, rumor upon rumor; Fear, uncertainty, and alarming accounts of the coming of destructive armies would increase their terror, <span class='bible'>Jer 4:20<\/span>. They would then, when it was too late to pray or make amends for their wrongs, seek a hopeful vision from their prophets, in vain, <span class='bible'>Deu 32:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 20:1<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 20:3<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Psa 74:9<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 2:9<\/span>. For the law administration was to perish or cease from the priest, and counsel from the ancient elders of Israel, <span class='bible'>Amo 8:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Deu 17:10<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verse 27 concludes <\/strong>that the Lord would cause the king, the prince, and the hands of the people all to be weakened and desolated from liberty, by the judgment hand of God until they knew that He was the Lord.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Now the Prophet threatens that the desperation of the people would be so great that they would forget both gold and silver: for we know that men are more anxious about those possessions than about life itself. But gold, unless it be prepared for use, has no value in itself: yet we see that the majority are so inflamed with the desire of gold, that they cast themselves into the certain danger of death. For how many neglect their own life to acquire wealth: hence when men despise gold, they are assuredly astonished by fear and anxiety so as to lose their natural senses. The Prophet means this when he says,  they shall cast their gold into the streets,  because if they thought they should survive, and if there were any hope of life left, doubtless they would hide their gold and silver. But when gold is cast away, it is certain, as I have said, that all things are full of despair.  Their gold,  says he,  shall be cast away  I prefer this interpretation to an unclean thing.  &#1504;&#1491;&#1492;,  nedeh,  signifies pollution, defilement, and separation. If any prefer-the translation  &#8220;  separation,&#8221;  I do not object, only let us understand that the Jews would treat their gold as valueless, and so willingly separated from it. For we know that men are so attached to their gold and silver that it grieves them to be torn from what they so much love: no less than if you tore away their entrails. But the word  &#8220;  a casting away&#8221; is clearer, and will answer to the former member of the sentence better. He adds,  their gold and silver will be unable to preserve them in the day of Jehovah&#8217;s anger  Here the Prophet derides the perverse confidence of those who thought themselves safe, because fortified with great wealth. For when men see themselves protected by guards they fear nothing, and such security is not easily wrested from them. For this cause also, Ezekiel pronounces that gold and silver would be useless to the Jews when God was fierce against them. And at the same time he obliquely reproves their sloth, because they despised God&#8217;s judgments since they were spared at the time. Hence he declares &#8212;  the day of God&#8217;s burning wrath shall come:  then he says,  they shall not satisfy their souls,  and  they shall not fill their bellies  Here he means that the richest even should be famished. When any famine presses upon the people, yet those who have money at home do not suffer; besides, the rich have all kinds of produce in their barns and granaries. But the Prophet says, that the penury shall be such as to involve the rich, so that they should not have food to refresh themselves. Thus the reason is added,  because it was the stumblingblock of their iniquity  Some take this clause generally, that the Jews should stumble on account of their iniquity, that is, then shall be the time of receiving their reward. For God had seemed to pardon them, and not to notice so many iniquities with which they provoked him. He says therefore,  in that day shall be a stumblingblock,  if that sense pleases you, but I would rather restrict it to money itself, since silver and gold shall profit nothing,  inasmuch as it shall be a stumblingblock of iniquity,  that is, it shall be the material or occasion of sinning: and the next verse confirms this sense when it says &#8212; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Calvin&#8217;s Complete Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>3. The economic distress (7:1922)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(19) They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall become an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy nor shall they fill their inward parts; because their iniquity has become a stumblingblock. (20) And as for their beautiful adornments, they appointed them for their pride; and they made the images of their abominations, their detestable things with it; therefore I have given it to them for an unclean thing. (21) And I will place it in the hand of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for booty; and they shall profane it. (22) And I shall turn My face from them, and they shall profane My secret place, and robbers shall come into it and they shall defile it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Worldly wealth would be worthless in that day. Silver and gold came to be regarded as an unclean thing, (lit., something defiled by menstrual impurity, <span class='bible'>Lev. 20:21<\/span>). The precious metal only proves cumbersome to those who are fleeing for their lives. In that day of Yahwehs wrath men would not be able to purchase deliverance, nor food for their bellies (<span class='bible'>Eze. 7:19<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Worthless wealth! How tragic! Yet how appropriate. Silver and gold had proved to be iniquity and a stumbling block to the nation (<span class='bible'>Eze. 7:19<\/span>). Their wealth had been the cause of their sin (cf. <span class='bible'>Hos. 2:10<\/span>). These precious metals and their beautiful adornments (I. E., jewelry) they had fashioned into objects of pride and images of their abominable and detestable gods. They had committed the same sin as the Sinai generation in fashioning a graven image of their jewelry. Because they had so abused Gods gifts, the Lord would bring them into circumstances in which these precious substances would be regarded as filthy and unclean (<span class='bible'>Eze. 7:20<\/span>),<\/p>\n<p>The wealth of Judah would become the possession of strangers, i.e., the invading army. In the hands of the wicked of the earth these riches, once devoted to sacred, albeit illegitimate, services would be profaned (<span class='bible'>Eze. 7:21<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Not only would the Jews be deprived of their material support, they would also be denied spiritual support. God would turn His face from them. The turning of Gods face from the people is the reverse of the priestly blessing which invoked God to make His face shine upon them (<span class='bible'>Num. 6:25<\/span> f.). The Temple would provide no protection. The invader would profane Gods secret place, i.e., the holiest part of the Temple. The sacred precincts would be pillaged, plundered and defiled by these greedy thieves (<span class='bible'>Eze. 7:22<\/span>). God had no desire to keep mere outward forms of worship when that worship had become perverted by the devices of wicked men.<\/p>\n<p>The despoliation of Judah and the Temple were a necessary part of Gods plan for reclaiming a remnant of Israel. With material possession gone and the Temple in ruins the people of God were forced to cast themselves completely on the Lord. As it turned out, the death of material security turned out to be the resurrection of faith.[192]<\/p>\n<p>[192] Blackwood, EPH, p. 70<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(19) <strong>Cast their silver in the streets.<\/strong>As in the rout of an army the soldier throws away everything, even his most valuable things, as impediments to his flight and temptations to the pursuing enemy, so the Israelites in their terror should abandon everything. Their riches will be utterly unavailing. The expression in the original is even stronger: their gold shall be to them an unclean thing, filth, because they shall perceive that it has been to them an occasion of sin.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 19<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Their gold shall be removed <\/strong> Literally, <em> shall be an impurity. <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> Is the stumbling-block <\/strong> Literally, <em> was. <\/em> The meaning seems to be that it is the rich men of the city who are now seeking most anxiously to escape. But the rich men, who have previously depended upon their wealth to help them out of every difficulty, will find their money now an impediment; they will drop it in the streets, as they fly from the city and count it an abhorrence (<span class='bible'>Eze 36:17<\/span>). It is of no value in obtaining the luxuries of life, or even food (see <span class='bible'>2Ki 6:25<\/span>), and probably is a hindrance in obtaining help in the flight. Brotherhood, not money, is the only thing that wins assistance in such hours. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Because it is the stumbling-block <\/strong> The love of money led to the oppression of the poor, and the possession of it led them away from the simplicity of Jehovah worship into the luxurious manners and worship of the heathen. They stumbled then over a golden idol into guilt; they will now stumble over the same golden idol into punishment.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> &ldquo;They will toss their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy themselves nor fill their bowels, because it has been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> Their wealth will be tossed away and be seen as detestable, &lsquo;unclean&rsquo; like the menstrual flow of a woman (which was in those days looked on with something akin to disgust and horror by Israelite men). Silver and gold will be useless in the day of the wrath of Yahweh, for there will be nothing to buy. It will not provide the people with food, and satisfy them and fill their bowels, for there will be none. It will have no use. Perhaps there is also the thought that the people will not wish to appear rich, for they know that their captors will especially carry off the wealthy, reputable citizens. Thus wealth will no longer be desirable. Alternately the thought may be that with their silver and gold they had made their idols which will not be able to deliver them in &lsquo;the day of the wrath of Yahweh&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Because it has been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.&rsquo; And all this will be because it was their silver and gold that helped to lead them astray, either through greed or idolatry. It was that which had caused them to stumble.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Eze 7:19<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>Their gold shall be removed<\/em><\/strong><strong><\/strong> <em>Shall be vile refuse, <\/em>or, <em>become despicable. <\/em>Houbigant reads the last clause, <em>After their iniquity hath brought on their ruin.<\/em> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Eze 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 19. <strong> They shall cast their silver in the streets.<\/strong> ] As burdensome, and not beneficial to them <em> a<\/em> Thus Judas threw away his wages of wickedness; and many, on their deathbeds, detest their cursed hoards of ill gotten goods, saying unto them, as once Charles V did, <em> Abite hinc, abite longe,<\/em> &#8211; Away from me, away, away. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> Their gold shall be removed.<\/strong> ] Shall be for a dunghill, saith the Vulgate; it shall be esteemed, as it is, the guts and garbage of the earth. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> Their silver and their gold.<\/strong> ] See Pro 11:4 Zep 1:18 <span class='bible'>Ecc 5:8<\/span> , <em> See Trapp on &#8220;<\/em> Pro 11:4 <em> &#8220;<\/em> <em> See Trapp on &#8220;<\/em> Zep 1:18 <em> &#8220;<\/em> <em> See Trapp on &#8220;<\/em> Ecc 5:8 <em> &#8220;<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> They shall not satisfy <em> b<\/em> their souls.] Silver and gold are not eatable, as Midas found, and the great Caliph of Babylon, whom Haabon the great Khan of Tartary starved to death in the midst of his infinite treasures, which though they were in valour great, and with great care laid together, yet served they him not now to suffice nature best contented with a little. <em> c<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> Because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.<\/strong> ] Their wealth is the occasion of their wickedness, and they are much the worse men for their worldly substance. See <span class='bible'>Psa 52:7<\/span> , with the margin; Jer 5:27-28 <span class='bible'>Luk 16:9<\/span> ; <span class='bible'>Luk 16:13<\/span> . <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em> a<\/em> <em> Ne sit ponderi quod prius fuit luxuriae.<\/em> &#8211; <em> Jerome.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em> b<\/em> <em> Plato in Cratylo scribit Tantalum dictum esse quas<\/em>  , <em> i.e., <\/em> <em> infelicissimum<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em> c<\/em> <em> Turkish History,<\/em> 113.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>deliver = rescue. <\/p>\n<p>souls = cravings of their animal nature. Hebrew. nepheah. App-13. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 7:19-22<\/p>\n<p>Eze 7:19-22<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They shall cast their silver in their streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumbling-block of their iniquity. As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing. And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it and profane it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STORED-UP WEALTH WILL BE UNABLE TO DELIVER THEM<\/p>\n<p>The absolute worthlessness of all earthly valuables in a situation where one is confronted with the judgment of God is dramatically set forth here. Keil pointed out that the passage here &#8220;is reminiscent of Zep 1:8,  a passage describing the Final Judgment. &#8220;Silver and gold, nor any other wealth, can save us in the day of Jehovah&#8217;s anger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their beautiful ornament &#8230;&#8221; (Eze 7:20). &#8220;This is a reference to the silver and gold already mentioned.  It was a stumblingblock to them, leading them into iniquity. They used the gold to minister to their pride and to make the images of their abominations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My secret place (or my precious place, as in NEB) &#8230;&#8221; (Eze 7:22). &#8220;This is a reference to the Temple.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>shall cast: 2Ki 7:7, 2Ki 7:8, 2Ki 7:15, Pro 11:4, Isa 2:20, Isa 30:22, Zep 1:18, Mat 16:26 <\/p>\n<p>removed: Heb. for a separation, or uncleanness <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jer 9:23 &#8211; rich Lam 4:1 &#8211; How is the gold Eze 3:20 &#8211; and I lay Eze 16:17 &#8211; hast also Zep 1:3 &#8211; stumblingblocks Zep 1:13 &#8211; their goods Rom 4:15 &#8211; Because<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 7:19, When the people of Judah find themselves captured by the army of Babylon, they will realize that all of their wealth will avail them nothing. It will be impossible to buy their freedom and hence they might as well cast their money to the ground. The thing that caused the downfall of the people was the worship of idols, Many of them were made of silver and gold, hence they need not count on purchasing their deliverance with this corrupting material.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 7:19-27. In the dread day of the siege, when ruthless Babylonian hands would profane Yahwehs secret (or rather cherished) place, i.e. the Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gold, of which they had been so haughtily proud, could buy for them a bit of bread, nor could their gilt and silvered gods deliver them. Nor was it only the idolatry of their worship, but the violence, the cruelty, the injustice of their lives, their bloody crimes, that had brought this desecration upon the holy places. All the civil and religious leaders would be at their wits end, and, in the absence of true leadership the common people would be helpless. Then, when they are reaping the reward of their sin and folly, they shall know that I am Yahweh. (In Eze 7:23 the words rendered make the chain are obscure and uncertain.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Peake&#8217;s Commentary on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Valuables and food would mean very little then because all that would concern the people would be remaining alive. Money cannot buy food when food is not there. The people had become proud over the glorious splendor of Jerusalem and the temple and, as the height of arrogance, had used some of the temple treasures to make idols. Therefore the Lord would make the temple an abhorrent thing to them and would turn it over to their enemies who would profane it (cf. Dan 5:3-4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:36pt\">&quot;Since Israel had already profaned the temple of God, He saw no further purpose in keeping it from the desecration of the enemy.&quot;<span style=\"color:#808080\"> [Note: Feinberg, p. 47.] <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Lord would turn away from His people then.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 19. 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