“Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
When God has determined to destroy a land, there is no hope of pardon. Even the righteousness of Noah, Daniel, and Job cannot move Him to spare so much as a single son or daughter. His wrath and vengeance, once decreed, will not be turned aside by any intercession.
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National sins bring national judgments without fail. When vice becomes widespread and heinous, God stretches forth His hand in punishment with grievous plagues suited to the sin. He commands a variety of judgments to show His universal dominion over all human concerns.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 14:12-23
Even Noah, Daniel, and Job cannot deliver a single son or daughter. The singular here, set against the plural used before, shows how resolutely determined the Lord is upon the land's destruction. Not even the prayers of the best men among them will prevail with Him to save an infant.
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