Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 14:3

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3. heart . . . face —The heart is first corrupted, and then the outward manifestation of idol-worship follows; they set their idols before their eyes. With all their pretense of consulting God now, they have not even put away their idols outwardly; implying gross contempt of God. "Set up," literally, "aloft"; implying that their idols had gained the supreme ascendancy over them. stumbling-block of . . . iniquity —See Proverbs 3:21 ; Proverbs 3:23 , "Let not them (God's laws) depart from thine eyes, then . . . thy foot shall not stumble. " Instead of God's law, which (by being kept before their eyes) would have saved them from stumbling, they set up their idols before their eyes, which proved a stumbling-block, causing them to stumble ( Ezekiel 7:19 ). inquired of at all —literally, "should I with inquiry be inquired of" by such hypocrites as they are? ( Psalms 66:18 ; Proverbs 15:29 ; Proverbs 28:9 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-ezk-14-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/ezk-14-3

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological