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Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, this punishment being indeed administered by the hand of Jehovah, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come, so that, in the midst of the dispersion, He would be the refuge of them who trusted in him.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 11:16. _YET WILL I BE TO THEM AS A LITTLE SANCTUARY_] Though thus exiled from their own land, yet not forgotten by their God. While in their captivity, I will dispense many blessings to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AS A LITTLE SANCTUARY - Rather, I will be to them for a little while a sanctuary. The blessing was provisional, they were to look forward to a blessing more complete. For a little while they were to b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 11:1. The priests and the leaders of the nation were steeped in wickedness, defied God and the judgments His prophets had announced. They devised mischief (or iniquity) and gave wicked counsel...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    A GLIMMER OF HOPE. The people who, at the first deportation (597 B.C.), were allowed to remain in the land, clearly thought themselves superior to those who, like Ezekiel, had been taken to Babylon fa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I HAVE SCATTERED, &c. Compare Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 31:10, &c. WILL. BE. will become. AS. LITTLE SANCTUARY. a sanctuary for. little while. SANCTUARY. as. holy place, or asylum, as in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _yet will I be to them_ Rather: and HAVE BEEN TO THEM FOR A SANCTUARY BUT LITTLE in the countries where they are come. The expression "for a sanctuary but little" refers to the taunt of the dwellers i...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _EZEKIEL 11:15_. S_ON OF MAN,_ &C.— _Son of man, thy brethren, the men who are captives with thee, and all the house of Israel; all those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, They are vanished fa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. DECLARATIONS BY THE PROPHET 11:1-25 Chapter 11 sets forth two declarations by the prophet in his vision. The first (Ezekiel 11:1-13) denounced the leaders in Jerusalem. The second brought comfort...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Jewish Exiles Encouraged 11:14-21 TRANSLATION (14) And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (15) Son of man, your brethren, your kinsmen, and all the house of Israel all of these are the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DOOM OF THE LEADERS OF JERUSALEM'S WICKEDNESS. COMFORT FOR THE EXILES The slaughter in Ezekiel 9 was only the visionary rehearsal of a judgment still in the future. The vision now takes another tu...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AS A LITTLE SANCTUARY] RV 'a sanctuary for a little while.' God's presence and the privileges of the Temple were not confined to Jerusalem....

  • 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 11 HOW GOD WOULD PUNISH THE LEADERS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 11:...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEREFORE SAY. — These words, again repeated in Ezekiel 11:17, refer to what the people of Jerusalem had said in Ezekiel 11:15. Their saying these things was a reason, not for what God would do, but f...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֣ן אֱמֹ֗ר כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִה֒...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A NEW HEART PROMISED Ezekiel 11:5-25 The Spirit of God led the prophet to the East Gate of the Temple, where the Shekinah had settled, Ezekiel 10:19. There He uttered the divine verdict on the priest...

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

    The prophet was now lifted by the Spirit, and brought to the east gate, that is, to the place whither the glory of God had departed. There he saw a conclave of five and twenty men presided over by pri...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the nations, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little (h) sanctuary in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _A little. Hebrew, "for a short time, a sanctuary," or temple. They shall find all things in me. The Christian Church was never more pure than during the first persecutions, when her children could no...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It should seem, that this is not only a new sermon, but delivered at a different period from the former, though the interval was not perhaps long. And it is a very sweet and gracious sermon, and full...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘A SANCTUARY FOR A LITTLE WHILE’_ ‘I will be to them as a little sanctuary’ Ezekiel 11:16 Our Authorised Version reads thus: ‘Although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 11 God judges the leaders of iniquity, who comforted themselves in the thought that the city was impregnable [1]. They should be brought out from the midst thereof and be judged in the bord...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Since they were so insulted and ill treated by their brethren the Jews: ALTHOUGH I HAVE CAST THEM AFAR OFF AMONG THE HEATHEN; both the ten tribes, even all...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the...

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

    _Therefore say_ In vindication of the captives; _Although I have cast them far off_ Not from myself, but from you and your polluted land, and out of the way of the dreadful judgments which are approac...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The pious captives in Babylon were insulted by the Jews who continued in Jerusalem; but God made gracious promises to them. It is promised, that God will give them one heart; a heart firmly fix...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE; in apology and vindication of them, backed with excellent promises in the following verses. SAY; say to them, and of them in Babylon. ALTHOUGH I HAVE CAST THEM FAR OFF: the obstinate Jews a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 11:16 say H559 (H8798) says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 off H7368 (H8689) Gentiles...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SCATTERED (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Ezekiel 11:16 In trying to understand the great promise of the text, note I. The idea of asylum and protection. "I will be as a little sanctuary." "I will be the shield and protector and sure refuge...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vision of wrath against lying princes. Promise to spare the remnant. Israel's coming restoration and converson. Departure of the glory from Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 11:2. _These are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city._ These twenty five men, with two princes at their head, Jaazaniah and Pelatiah, were the infidel club of th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come._ GOD THE SANCTUARY OF THE AFFLICTED Philosophers have frequently remarked what may be called the doctrine of compe...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:14 Ezekiel’s outcry in v. Ezekiel 11:13 apparently prompts one of the most important statements of hope in the book, one closely connected to the “new heart” passage i

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jeru...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 11:1 MOREOVER THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, etc. It is noticeable that the position to which Ezekiel was thus transported in his vision from his place in the inner court (Ezekiel 8:14),...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 11. DESTRUCTION OF A CORRUPT PRIESTHOOD, WITH THE PROMISE OF GRACE AND BLESSING TO A BELIEVING REMNANT AMONG THE EXILES. Ezekiel 11:1. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east g...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel, chapter 11. Now Ezekiel is in Babylon during the time of these prophecies, but the Spirit of God transports him back to Jerusalem. And there he sees things tha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 24:12; Deuteronomy 30:3; Deuteronomy 30:4; Isaiah 4:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Say — In vindication of them. Although — The obstinate Jews at Jerusalem will call them apostates; but I the Lord sent them thither, and will own them there. Scattered — Dispersed them in many countri...

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