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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Ezekiel 6:14

From, or, "more than," (Haydock) as Hebrew may signify. Deblatha was in the land of Moab, Numbers xxxiii. 46. (Calmet)

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See also Ezekiel 6:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 6:14. _AND MAKE THE LAND-MORE DESOLATE THAN THE WILDERNESS_ _TOWARD DIBLATH_] _Diblath_ or _Diblathayim_ is situated in the land of Moab. It is mentioned Numbers 33:46, _Almon-Diblathai...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment. Ezekiel 6:11 SMITE ... STAMP - Well-known modes of expressing grief. Ezekiel 6:13 S...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 6:1. The mountains of Israel are mentioned first, because they were the places where the people practiced idolatry; they were the high places so often mentioned in the historical books. (Read...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The prospect of the awful destruction of the idolaters by sword, famine, and pestilence, moves Ezekiel to give vent to his feelings in gestures of triumphant scorn; far from pitying his sinful fellow-...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SO WILL I: or, And. will. STRETCH OUT MY HAND. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 7:6, &c.) DIBLATH. Diblathaim (Numbers 33:46; Jeremiah 48:22).. Massoretic note records the fact that some MSS, read Rib...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Renewal of the threat of destruction because of idolatry...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _desolate, yea, more desolate_ Rather: DESOLATE AND WASTE (ch. Ezekiel 33:28-29; Ezekiel 35:3) more than the wilderness of Diblah. The comparative "more than," however, is not probable. Moreover a wil...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WILDERNESS TOWARDS DIBLATH— _Wilderness of Diblath. Diblath_ was in the land of Moab (Numbers 33:46; Numbers 33:56.), and was part of that terrible wilderness mentioned by Moses, Deuteronomy 8:15. REF...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. A Distressing Lamentation 6:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) Thus says the Lord GOD: Clap your hand and stamp your foot, and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, with swor...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. DIBLATH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A PROPHECY AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN LAND OF ISRAEL The coming judgment is here announced to the land of Israel, which is identified with the people. Ezekiel 6:8, following up the hint in Ezekiel 5:3, spe...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MORE DESOLATE THAN] RV 'waste, from.' The wilderness toward Diblath] RV 'Diblah.' Diblath, or Diblathaim, was in Moab, beyond the Dead Sea (Numbers 33:46; Jeremiah 48:22). The phrase in AV would mean...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 6 GOD WILL BREAK THE *ALTARS AND REMOVE THE FALSE GODS – EZE...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MORE DESOLATE THAN THE WILDERNESS TOWARD DIBLATH. — The name _Diblath_ does not occur elsewhere; but _Diblathaim,_ the dual form, is mentioned in Numbers 33:46; Jeremiah 48:22, as a double city on the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָטִ֤יתִי אֶת ־יָדִי֙ עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם וְ נָתַתִּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    These signs were followed by denunciations growing naturally out of what they had taught. In general terms, the prophet first foretold the coming judgment of the sword against the whole land, and the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, even, more desolate (h) than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. (h...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! amidst numberless subjects, which arise everywhere and in every part of the word of God, some there are, which from their vast importance, arrest the mind more earnestly, and call...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It should seem, from what is here said, that the Prophet was to enforce the truths he had to deliver, by action of body as well as expression of mind. Indeed, so solemn a subject might well be suppose...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Ezekiel pursues the same sentiment, but it is necessary to persist with more words in confirmation of his prophecy, because it was somewhat difficult of belief, especially among men so secure, and who...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO WILL I STRETCH OUT MINE HAND UPON THEM,.... Not unto them, in a way of mercy; but upon, or against them, in a way of judgment. The Targum paraphrases it, "and I will lift up the stroke of my power...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 14...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot_ Join to thy words the gestures which are proper to express grief and concern at the wickedness of thy people, and for their calamities that will ensue. _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FATE OF THOSE WHO REMAIN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So will I stretch out My hand upon them, in sending His punishment, AND MAKE THE LAND DESOLATE, YEA, MORE DESOLATE THAN THE WILDERNESS TOWARD DIBLATH, a desert otherwise unknown, but probably located...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-14 It is our duty to be affected, not only with our own sins and sufferings, but to look with compassion upon the miseries wicked people bring upon themselves. Sin is a desolating thing; therefore,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    STRETCH OUT MY HAND: this noteth the greatness of the blow, God striketh hard when he stretcheth out his hand, and therefore you find a mighty hand joined with outstretched arm. DESOLATE; a desolation...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 6:14 out H5186 (H8804) hand H3027 make H5414 (H8804) land H776 desolate H8077 desolate H4923 wilderness...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And you will know that I am Yahweh when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and unde...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message against the mountains of Israel. Remnant to be spared. Desolations upon the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will fir...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 6:3. _I will destroy your high places,_ all the necessaries of idolatry. במות _bomoth,_ Βουνοι, thence Βωμοι. _Your high altars._ In Montfaucon's Antiquities we have various views of heathen a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and “land” ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    4. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF ISRAEL’S CONDUCT (Chap. 6) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_The judgment on places of idolatry and the worshippers_ (Ezekiel 6:1). After asserting, in Ezekiel 6:1,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 6:2, EZEKIEL 6:3 SET THY FACE TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, in...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel the sixth chapter. Ezekiel here addresses himself to the mountains of Israel. The people of Israel had built places of worship on the tops of the mountains, but...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 14:23; 2 Kings 16:4; Ezekiel 20:28; Ezekiel 6:4; Hosea 4:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wilderness — The horrid wilderness of Moab. Therein the fiery serpents so much annoyed Israel. Accordingly the land of Canaan is at this day one of the most desolate countries in the world....

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