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God's View of Injustice
Commentators explain that the "slain" in Jerusalem were not only victims of literal murder. The term also encompasses victims of all forms of injustice and oppression. John Calvin notes that in God's eyes, "all violence is as slaughter." This is a sobering reminder that God holds people accountable for ruining lives through greed and power, not just physical violence.
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Ezekiel
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Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 11:6
19th Century
Bishop
Ye have multiplied your slain. —Crimes of violence, as well as licentiousness, are always the fruit of defection from God…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 11:6–7
16th Century
Theologian
Now Ezekiel attacks, as it were, in close combat, the buffoons who trifled with God by their jests, and brings forward that sense which I have just…
John Gill
On Ezekiel 11:6
17th Century
Pastor
You have multiplied your slain in this city. They had killed many of the prophets of the Lord that had been sent to them,…
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Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 11:1–13
17th Century
Minister
Where Satan cannot persuade people to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as distant…