UHezekile 18:31

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

31 Lahlani zonke izikreqo zenu enikreqe ngazo, nizenzele intliziyo entsha nomoya omtsha. Yini na ukuba nife, ndlu kaSirayeli?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cast: Ezekiel 20:7, Psalms 34:14, Isaiah 1:16, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 30:22, Isaiah 55:7, Romans 8:13, Ephesians 4:22-32, Colossians 3:5-9, James 1:21, 1 Peter 1:14, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 4:2-4

make: Ezekiel 11:19, Ezekiel 36:26, Psalms 51:10, Jeremiah 32:39, Matthew 12:33, Matthew 23:26, Acts 3:19, Romans 8:13, Romans 12:2, James 4:8, 1 Peter 1:22

for why: Ezekiel 33:11, Deuteronomy 30:15, Deuteronomy 30:19, Proverbs 8:36, Jeremiah 21:8, Jeremiah 27:15, Acts 13:46

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean 1 Samuel 7:3 - prepare 2 Kings 7:15 - had cast away 2 Kings 17:13 - Turn ye Job 11:14 - put it far Job 36:10 - commandeth Proverbs 4:24 - Put Proverbs 6:32 - destroyeth Proverbs 21:6 - seek Isaiah 59:20 - unto Jeremiah 4:4 - take Jeremiah 4:14 - wash Jeremiah 5:15 - O house Jeremiah 7:3 - Amend Jeremiah 27:13 - Why Jeremiah 44:8 - that ye might cut Ezekiel 18:28 - turneth Ezekiel 43:9 - Now let Hosea 8:4 - that they Matthew 13:23 - good Matthew 18:8 - and cast Luke 19:42 - If John 3:10 - and knowest Romans 13:12 - cast 2 Corinthians 5:17 - a new 2 Corinthians 5:20 - as Ephesians 4:23 - be Colossians 3:10 - the new Titus 2:12 - denying

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed,.... As unprofitable and pernicious, to be abhorred and abstained from, and to be cast off, as loads and burdens upon them. Kimchi interprets it of the punishment of their sins, which might be cast off, or escaped, by repentance; perhaps it is best to interpret it of the casting away of their idols, by which they transgressed; see

Ezekiel 20:7;

and make you a new heart and a new spirit; which the Lord elsewhere promises to give, and he does give to his own elect;

Ezekiel 20:7- :; and if here to be understood of a regenerated heart and spirit, in which are new principles of light, life, and love, grace and holiness, it will not prove that it is in the power of man to make himself such a heart and spirit; since from God's command, to man's power, is no argument; and the design of the exhortation is to convince men of their want of such a heart; of the importance of it: and which, through the efficacious grace of God, may be a means of his people having it, seeing he has in covenant promised it to them. The Targum renders it,

"a fearing heart, and a spirit of fear;''

that is, a heart and spirit to fear, serve, and worship the Lord, and not idols; and so the amount of the exhortation is, yield a hearty reverential obedience to the living God, and not to dumb idols; or that they would be hearty and sincere in their national repentance and reformation they are here pressed unto:

for why will ye die, O house of Israel? which is to be understood, not of an eternal death; since the deaths here spoken of was now upon them, what they were complaining of, and from which they might be recovered,

Ezekiel 18:2; but temporal calamity and affliction, as in 2 Corinthians 1:10; and so in the following words.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 18:31. Cast away — With a holy violence, dash away every transgression and incentive to it.

Make you a new heart — Call upon God for it, and he will give it: for as sure as you earnestly call on God through Christ to save you, so surely you shall be saved; and the effect will so speedily follow, that God is pleased to attribute that in some sort to yourselves, which is done by his grace alone; because ye earnestly call upon him for it, come in the right way to receive it, and are determined never to rest till you have it.

For why will ye die — Who should you go to hell while the kingdom of God is open to receive you? Why should you be the devil's slaves, when ye may be Christ's freemen! WHY WILL YE DIE? Every word is emphatic. Why - show God or man one reason. Will - obstinacy alone, - a determination not to be saved, or a voluntary listlessness about salvation, - can prevent you. Ye - children of so many mercies, fed and supported by a kind God all your life; ye, who are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ; ye, who have made many promises to give up yourselves to God; ye, who have been dedicated to the ever-blessed Trinity, and promised to renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh; why will YE die? Die! - what is this? A separation from God and the glory of his power for ever! Die! - forfeiting all the purposes for which your immortal souls were made! Die - to know what the worm is that never dieth, and what that fire is which is never quenched! Why will ye die?