Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them,.... among the princes, priests, prophets, and people of the land, who acted the part as above described; for otherwise, no doubt, there were good people in the land,…

The sixth word of judgment. The special sins of princes, priests, and people. Eze 22:26 Violated - Better as in margin; to offer “violence” to the Law is to misinterpret it. It was the special office…

I sought for a man - I saw that there was a grievous breach made in the moral state and feeling of the people, and I sought for a man that would stand in the gap; that would faithfully exhort, reprove…

Here is, I. A general idea given of the land of Israel, how well it deserved the judgments coming to destroy it and how much it needed these judgments to refine it. Let the prophet tell her plainly,…

All classes (Eze 22:25-29) are alike corrupt; a man to stand in the breach in behalf of the people is looked for in vain, cf. Jer 5:1.

For "hedge" better fence, cf. on Eze 13:5. A "man" here is not a…