Ezekiel 22: Jerusalem’s Bloodshed and Corruption

God charges Jerusalem with murder, idolatry, abuse of the weak, sexual sin and bribery, all rooted in forgetting Him. He pictures Israel as worthless slag to be melted in His anger, condemns its rulers, priests, prophets and people, and finds no one to stand in the breach.

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Why does the LORD say He will gather Israel into Jerusalem like metals into a furnace (Ezekiel 22:19-21)?

To melt them down there in His blazing angerTo count them before sending them into exileTo crown a new king over them in the cityTo shelter them behind its walls from the enemy