Ezekiel 22:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Ezekiel 22:18 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 1:22
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
Psalms 119:119
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
Jeremiah 6:28-30
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. …
Isaiah 48:10
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Proverbs 17:3
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Topics

Backsliders Call Church Converts Dross Forgetting God Impenitence Israel, Prophecies Concerning

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-22)

The same melancholy string is still harped upon, and various turns are given it, to make it affecting, that it may be influencing. The prophet must here show, or at least it is here shown him, that the whole house of Israel has become as dross and that as dross they shall be consumed. What David has said concerning the wicked ones of the world is here said concerning the wicked ones of the church,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. dross ... brass--Israel has become a worthless compound of the dross of silver (implying not merely corruption, but degeneracy from good to bad, Is 1:22, especially offensive) and of the baser metals. Hence the people must be thrown into the furnace of judgment, that the bad may be consumed, and the good separated (Jr 6:29, 30).