Ezekiel 14:9
if the.20:25; 2Sa 12:11,12; 1Ki 22:20-23; Job 12:16; Ps 81:11,12Isa 63:16; 66:4; Jer 4:10; 2Th 2:9-12I the.That is, I have suffered him to be deceived; I have given him up to "strong delusions to believe a lie," as a just judgment upon him for going after idols, and setting up false pretensions to inspiration. God, according to the genius of the Hebrew language, is often said to do a thing, which he only suffers, or permits. and I will.16:27; Isa 5:25; 9:12,17,21; 10:4Ezekiel 20:25
I gave.The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 26,39; 14:9-11; De 4:27,28; 28:36; Ps 81:12; Isa 66:4; Ro 1:21-282Th 2:9-11Acts 4:28
to do.2:23; 3:18; 13:27-29; Ge 50:20; Ps 76:10; Mt 26:24,54; Lu 22:22Lu 24:44-46; 1Pe 2:7,8and.Job 12:13; Pr 21:30; Isa 5:19; 28:29; 40:13; 46:10; 53:10; Eph 1:11Heb 6:172 Thessalonians 2:11
for.Ps 81:11,12; 109:17; Isa 29:9-14; Joh 12:39-43; Ro 1:21-25,28God.1Ki 22:18-22; 2Ch 18:18-22; Isa 6:9,10; Eze 14:9that.Isa 44:20; 66:4; Jer 27:10; Eze 21:29; Mt 24:5,11; 1Ti 4:1
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