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Commentaries on Ezekiel 33:8

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Ezekiel 33 This chapter treats of the prophet's duty, and the people's sins; contains a vindication of the justice of God; a threatening of destruction to those who remained in the land after the taking of the city; and a detection of the hypocrisy of the prophet's hearers. The duty of a watchman in general is declared, Ezekiel 33:1, an application of this to the prophet, Ezekiel...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man,.... Order the prophet to say so to him, and as follows; [See comments on Ezekiel 3:18].

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

The prophet has now come off his circuit, which he went as judge, in God's name, to try and pass sentence upon the neighbouring nations, and, having finished with them, and read them all their doom, in the eight chapters foregoing, he now returns to the children of his people, and receives further instructions what to say to them. I. He must let them know what office he was in among them as a...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Even as God required Abel’s blood at the hand of Cain, and pronounced him cursed because he was guilty of that blood, so will he require the blood of perishing men at the hands of those set...