{"id":20762,"date":"2022-09-24T08:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-1420\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T13:40:12","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-1420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-1420\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 14:20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><P> <B>Their own souls; <\/B>their person, their life. <\/P> <P><B>By their righteousness; <\/B>not meriting the deliverance, but yet the justice and mercy of God shall surely keep them from falling in the punishment who were kept from the sin. <\/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>15-21.<\/B> The argument iscumulative. He first puts the case of the land sinning so as to fallunder the judgment of a famine (<span class='bible'>Eze14:13<\/span>); then (<span class='bible'>Eze 14:15<\/span>)&#8221;noisome beasts&#8221; (<span class='bible'>Le26:22<\/span>); then &#8220;the sword&#8221;; then, worst of all,&#8221;pestilence.&#8221; The three most righteous of men shoulddeliver only themselves in these several four cases. In <span class='bible'>Eze14:21<\/span> he concentrates the whole in one mass of condemnation. IfNoah, Daniel, Job, could not deliver the land, when deserving only<I>one<\/I> judgment, &#8220;how much more&#8221; when all <I>four<\/I>judgments combined are justly to visit the land for sin, shall thesethree righteous men not deliver it.<\/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>Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it<\/strong>,&#8230;. Who are again mentioned by name, as in <span class='bible'>Eze 14:14<\/span>; and are the three men referred to in <span class='bible'>Eze 14:16<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[as] I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter<\/strong>; not so much as an only son, or an only daughter, no, not even a single child: the plural number is used before, as in <span class='bible'>Eze 14:16<\/span>; here the singular, to show how resolutely determined the Lord was upon the destruction of the land; that even the prayers of the best of men among them should not prevail with him to save a single person, no, not a single infant: they<\/p>\n<p><strong>shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness<\/strong>;<\/p>\n<p> <span class='bible'>[See comments on Eze 14:14]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 20<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> By their righteousness <\/strong> This is the strength of all intercessory prayer; but no prayer, however fervent, coming from any heart, however righteous, can put away this punishment so justly due to willful and persistent transgression and guilt. (See chap. 33.)<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Eze 14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 20. <strong> Neither son nor daughter.<\/strong> ] Though it were an only one, and so more dear to them. <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> They shall but deliver.<\/strong> ] Howbeit a good man also may die of the plague, as did Oecolampadius, Greenham, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Noah: Eze 14:14, Eze 14:16 <\/p>\n<p>Daniel: Daniel, says Abp. Newcombe, was &#8220;taken captive in the third year of Jehoiakim &#8211; Dan 1:1. After this, Jehoiakam reigned eight years &#8211; 2Ki 23:36. And this prophecy, as appears from Eze 8:1, was uttered in the sixth year of Jehoiachin&#8217;s captivity, who succeeded Jehoiakim, and reigned only three months &#8211; 2Ki 24:6, 2Ki 24:8. Therefore, at this time, Daniel had been fourteen years in captivity;&#8221; and was, as is generally supposed, about thirty years of age. <\/p>\n<p>by: Eze 18:20, Eze 18:22, Job 5:19-24, Psa 33:18, Psa 33:19, Isa 3:10, Hos 10:12, Zep 2:3, Act 10:35, 1Jo 2:29, 1Jo 3:7, 1Jo 3:10 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Gen 5:29 &#8211; he called Gen 6:9 &#8211; just Job 1:1 &#8211; Job Eze 3:19 &#8211; but thou Eze 20:4 &#8211; judge them Dan 1:6 &#8211; Daniel Mat 25:9 &#8211; lest Heb 11:7 &#8211; prepared<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 14:20. Once more the thought in verse It is repeated here.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, [were] in it, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall [but] deliver their own souls by their righteousness. Their own souls; their person, their life. By their righteousness; not meriting the deliverance, but yet the justice and mercy of God shall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-1420\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 14:20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}