Ezekiel 14:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 ¶ The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by committing a trespass, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, [a]and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and I will destroy man and beast forth of it.
14 Though these three men [b]Noah, Daniel, and Job were among them, they should deliver but their own souls by their [c]righteousness, saith the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 14:13 Read Ezek. 4:16 and 5:17; Isa. 3:1.
- Ezekiel 14:14 Though Noah and Job were now alive, which in their time were most godly men (for at this time Daniel was in captivity with Ezekiel) and so these three together should pray for this wicked people, yet would I not hear them, read Jer. 15:1.
- Ezekiel 14:14 Meaning, that a very few (which he calleth the remnant, verse 22) should escape these plagues, whom God hath sanctified and made righteous, so that this righteousness is a sign that they are the Church of God, whom he would preserve for his own sake.
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