Skip to content

Ezekiel 18:23

Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

My Notes

Commentary

Trusted original commentary from respected historical Bible scholars and theologians.

Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness,.... This is to be understood, not of a truly righteous man;…

Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832

Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? - No! That is foreign to him whose name is love, and whose nature…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Ezekiel 18:21-29

We have here another rule of judgment which God will go by in dealing with us, by which is further demonstrated the…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

The verse meets a feeling of despair both in regard to themselves and in regard to God which was beginning to take…