Ezekiel 33:7 — Community Reflections

EZEKIEL 33:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.”

If I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you shall surely die,' and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, then the wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand, explaining the watchman metaphor: the prophet must warn the wicked, with failure to warn making the prophet accountable for preventable deaths. The phrase 'you shall surely die' establishes that divine judgment is determined unless the wicked turn from wickedness.

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