John Gill Commentary Ezekiel 39:24

"According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them." — Ezekiel 39:24 (ASV)

According to their uncleanness
Not ceremonial, but moral; they were an impure and adulterous generation, as our Lord calls them, (Matthew 12:39) (16:4) : and according to their transgressions have I done unto them ;
or "rebellions", as the Targum renders it; or defections, as the word ^F11 signifies; their rebellions against the King Messiah; their defections from him; their contempt of him, and rejection of his yoke, and non-submission to his ordinances; according to the desert of such crimes, the Lord dealt with them;

``took vengeance on them,'' as the Targum is; in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple: "and hid my face from them"; or caused his Shechaniah to remove from them, as the same paraphrase; (See Gill on Ezekiel 39:23).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F11: (Mhyevpk) "secundum defectiones eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius; "pro defectionibus ipsorum", Cocceius.