Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
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
For thus saith the Lord God, how much more,.... If the Lord would not be entreated by such good men as those mentioned, for a land that had sinned against him, to whom he only sends some one of the above judgments, either famine, or noisome beasts, or the sword, or the pestilence, how much more inexorable and deaf to all entreaties must he be...
The sin is defined plainly: treachery toward God through apostasy or the withholding of what is due Him. When such trespass becomes national, even the three most righteous deliver only their own souls by their righteousness; the land itself becomes a desert, stripped of all its people.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 14:12-20