UHezekile 18:32

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

32 Ngokuba akumnandi kum ukufa kofayo; itsho iNkosi uYehova. Zibuyiseni ke niphile.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Ezekiel 18:23, Lamentations 3:33, 2 Peter 3:9

yourselves: or, others, Ezekiel 18:30

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:17 - surely Jeremiah 44:8 - that ye might cut Ezekiel 18:13 - shall he Ezekiel 33:11 - I have Luke 15:10 - there Luke 19:42 - If John 3:10 - and knowest Romans 11:11 - Have they stumbled Romans 13:12 - cast 2 Corinthians 5:20 - as 1 Timothy 2:4 - will 1 Peter 2:1 - laying

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,.... Which is not to be interpreted simply and absolutely, and with respect to all persons afflicted and punished by him; for he does take delight in the exercise of "judgment" and "righteousness", and "laughs" at the "calamity" of wicked men, Jeremiah 9:24; but comparatively, as in Hosea 5:6. The sense is, that he takes no pleasure in the afflictions, calamities, and captivity of men, which are meant by death here; but rather that they would repent and reform, and live in their own land, and enjoy the good things of it; which shows the mercy and compassion of God to sinners:

wherefore, he renews his exhortation,

turn [yourselves], and live ye; or, "ye shall live" r; I take no delight in your present deaths, your captivity; it would be more agreeable to me would you turn from your evil ways to the Lord your God, and behave according to the laws I have given you to walk by, and so live in your own land, in the quiet possession of your goods and estates.

r וחיו "et vivetis", Pagninus, Montanus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 18:32. For I have no pleasure — God repeats what he had so solemnly declared before. Can ye doubt his sincerity? his ability? his willingness? the efficacy of the blood of his covenant?

Wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. — Reader, now give God thy heart.

Though every man comes into the world with a fallen nature - a soul infected with sin, yet no man is damned on that account. He who refuses that grace which pardons sin and heals infected nature, who permits the evil principle to break out into transgression, and continues and dies in his iniquity and sin, and will not come unto Christ that he may have life; he, and he only, goes to perdition. Nor will the righteousness of a parent or relation help his sinful soul: no man can have more grace than is necessary to save himself; and none can have that, who does not receive it through Christ Jesus. It is the mercy of God in Christ which renders the salvation of a sinner possible; and it is that mercy alone which can heal the backslider. The atoning blood blots out all that is past; the same blood cleanses from all unrighteousness. Who believes so as to apply for this redemption? Who properly thanks God for having provided such a Saviour?