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Ezekiel 22:18

Ezekiel, son of man, I consider the people of Israel as worthless as the leftover metal in a furnace after silver has been purified.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Dross;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Lead;   Silver;   Tin;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Dross;   Lead;   Silver;   Tin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Brass, or Copper;   Metals;   Silver;   Wicked, the, Are Compared to;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Brass;   Iron;   Lead;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Brass;   Furnace;   Tin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lead;   Metals;   Mines;   Tin;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dross;   Ezekiel;   Furnace;   Minerals and Metals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mining and Metals;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Furnace;   Lead,;   Tin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lead;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mines, Mining;   Tin;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Dross;   Tin;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Furnace;   Lead;   Tin;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brass;   Dross;   Iron (1);   Lead;   Metallurgy;   Refiner;   Tin;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Brass;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Furnace;   Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, the house of Israel has become merely dross to me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are just dross from silver.
Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, the house of Yisra'el is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
King James Version
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
English Standard Version
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.
New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become waste metal to Me; all of them are bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the smelting furnace; they are the waste metal of silver.
New Century Version
"Human, the people of Israel have become useless like scum to me. They are like the copper, tin, iron, and lead left in the furnace when silver is purified.
Amplified Bible
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross (metallic waste) to Me. All of them are (useless) bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
World English Bible
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and leade in the mids of the fornace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are copper, tin, iron, and lead inside the furnace; they are but the dross of silver.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, the house of Isra'el has become an alloy of base metals for me; they are all copper, tin, iron and lead mixed together in the crucible, the dross left over from the silver.
Darby Translation
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: they are all copper, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are important metals, but when a worker melts silver to make it pure, those metals are poured off as waste. Israel has become like that waste to me.
George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross; all they are like brass and like tin, and like iron and lead in the midst of the furnace when they are mixed with silver.
Good News Translation
"Mortal man, the Israelites are of no use to me. They are like waste metal—copper, tin, iron, and lead—left over after silver has been refined in a furnace.
Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became!
Literal Translation
Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me. All of them are bronze and tin, and iron and lead, in the middle of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is turned to drosse. C All they that shulde be brasse, tynne, yro & leade, are in the fyre become drosse.
American Standard Version
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Bible in Basic English
Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto Me; all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, the house of Israel is to me become drosse: all they are brasse, and tinne, and yron, and lead in the midst of the furnace: they are euen the drosse of siluer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, tinne, iron, and lead in the middest of the furnace, euen drosse of siluer are they.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, behold, the house of Israel are all become to me as it were mixed with brass, and iron, and tin, and lead; they are mixed up in the midst of the silver.
English Revised Version
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou, sone of man, the hous of Israel is turned to me in to dros, ether filthe of irun; alle these ben bras, and tyn, and irun, and leed, in the myddis of furneis, thei ben maad the dros of siluer.
Update Bible Version
Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me: all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are [even] the dross of silver.
New English Translation
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
New King James Version
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver.
New Living Translation
"Son of man, the people of Israel are the worthless slag that remains after silver is smelted. They are the dross that is left over—a useless mixture of copper, tin, iron, and lead.
New Life Bible
"Son of man, the people of Israel have become waste to Me. They are like brass, tin, iron, and lead in the fire and have become waste that is left after silver has gone through the fire.
New Revised Standard
Mortal, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver, bronze, tin, iron, and lead. In the smelter they have become dross.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man, The house of Israel hath become to me, dross, - They all are copper and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, The dross of silver, have they become.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all these are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: they are become the dross of silver.
Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them, silver and bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace, have become dross.
Young's Literal Translation
The house of Israel hath been to Me for dross, All of them [are] brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, In the midst of a furnace -- dross hath silver been,

Contextual Overview

17 The Lord said: 18 Ezekiel, son of man, I consider the people of Israel as worthless as the leftover metal in a furnace after silver has been purified. 19 So I am going to bring them together in Jerusalem. 20I will be like a metalworker who collects that metal from the furnace and melts it down. I will collect the Israelites and blow on them with my fiery anger. They will melt inside the city of Jerusalem 22 like silver in a furnace. Then they will know that I, the Lord , have punished them in my anger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the house: Psalms 119:119, Isaiah 1:22, Jeremiah 6:28-30

brass: Ezekiel 22:20, Isaiah 48:4, Lamentations 4:1, Lamentations 4:2

in the midst: Proverbs 17:3, Isaiah 31:9, Isaiah 48:10

dross: Heb. drosses

Reciprocal: Isaiah 4:4 - by the spirit Isaiah 64:7 - consumed Jeremiah 6:30 - Reprobate silver Jeremiah 9:7 - I will Jeremiah 21:12 - lest Ezekiel 22:15 - consume Ezekiel 23:25 - thy residue Ezekiel 24:4 - General Daniel 3:6 - a burning Daniel 5:27 - Thou Malachi 3:3 - sit Galatians 5:20 - witchcraft

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.
Genesis 22:1
Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, "Here I am, Lord ."
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.
Genesis 22:4
Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.
Genesis 22:5
He told his servants, "Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back."
Genesis 22:9
when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.
Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.
1 Samuel 2:30
I am the Lord , the God of Israel. I promised to always let your family serve me as priests, but now I tell you that I cannot do this any longer! I honor anyone who honors me, but I put a curse on anyone who hates me.
Psalms 72:17
May the glory of the king shine brightly forever like the sun in the sky. Let him make nations prosper and learn to praise him.
Jeremiah 7:23
Instead, I told them, "If you listen to me and do what I tell you, I will be your God, you will be my people, and all will go well for you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross,.... Vile, despicable, useless, and unprofitable; to which the wicked of the earth are compared, Psalms 119:119 and here the Lord's professing people, they differing nothing from them, being sadly degenerated; formerly they were as silver, and so they might be reckoned among themselves; but to God, who is omniscient, the searcher of the hearts and reins, who saw all their actions, and knew the spring of them, in his sight they were as dross:

all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace: or "crucible" f; where they are put together, in order to be set in the furnace, and melted down. It is not usual to put so many different metals together for melting, but separately; but here it seems to intend a mixture of them all together; and so the Targum and Septuagint render it,

"all they as brass, c. are mixed''

several metals of the baser sort are here mentioned, by a gradation from the better to the worse; tin being not so good as brass, and iron of less value than either, and lead than any of them. Some think the different characters of the people are here described; impudent persons by "brass"; hypocrites by "tin"; cruel and savage ones by "iron"; and such as were sottish and stupid by "lead"; or, as others, covetous ones:

they are even the dross of silver; once they were like silver, precious and valuable, while they retained the true religion, and the worship of God, and behaved agreeably to their character in the performance of all good works, and were in outward flourishing circumstances; but now degenerated from the pure worship of God, and sunk into idolatry and wickedness, and become poor and miserable.

f כור "catinus", Junius and Tremellius, Polanus, Grotius, Cocceius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fifth word of judgment. The furnace. In the besieged city the people shall be tried and purged.

Ezekiel 22:18

Dross - A frequent metaphor which denotes not only the corruption of the people, who have become like base metal, but also a future purification whereby, the “dross” being burned away, the remnant of good may appear.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 22:18. The house of Israel is to me become dross — They are all like base metal-brass, tin, iron, and lead alloyed together with silver. Ye must be put in the furnace, and subjected to the most intense fire, till your impurities are consumed away. No ordinary means will avail any thing; the most violent must be resorted to.


 
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