EZEKIEL CHAPTER 11 Ezekiel is showed the presumption of the princes of Judah, EZEKIEL 11:1. He declareth their sin, and the manner of their punishment, EZEKIEL 11:4. He is terrified at the sudden death of Pelatiah, EZEKIEL 11:13. God showeth him his purpose of restoring the captives with favour, and... [ Continue Reading ]
So soon as the prophet had seen and observed how many and who they were, the Lord, sitting on the cherub, spoke unto him, EZEKIEL 10:4. THE MEN; not the only men, but indeed the most notorious. DEVISE; frame and contrive with craft and false reasonings. MISCHIEF; vanity; so the thing was, and mischi... [ Continue Reading ]
What counsel was by these men given appears by their words. IT IS NOT NEAR; either the threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans; or else, build, but not in the suburbs, not near, but in the city, that your houses may not shelter the enemy. THIS CITY IS THE CALDRON: this is an impious scoff, yet m... [ Continue Reading ]
For this their atheistical temper and words, tell them beforehand what they shall suffer. The charge and command is doubled, both to engage the prophet, and to intimate a doubled misery coming upon them, a misery they shall not have courage to laugh under, though they now dare contemptuously laugh a... [ Continue Reading ]
The Spirit of prophecy again moved him, which is here called the Spirit of the Lord, or, the Spirit the Lord, as the Hebrew will bear. FELL UPON ME; descended, by its own act powerfully, sweetly, and prevailingly entered the man. SAID UNTO ME; inclined me, that I could not but speak. THUS SAITH THE... [ Continue Reading ]
Many murders, and great ones, (for the Hebrew includeth both,) have you committed, either with frauds or violence, and sometimes with colour and pretence of law. YOUR SLAIN; so called because they were such as God had not commanded to be cut off, but the Jews did it without warrant from God. FILLED... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE; your murders are the cause of my severity, and such sins first or last are surely punished. YOUR SLAIN: see EZEKIEL 11:6. Or, _your slain_, because when they might and would have saved their life by a seasonable submission, you persuaded them to an obstinate opposition against the Chaldea... [ Continue Reading ]
Sinfully, and forgetting God, you would have escaped the sword of the Babylonians, and attempted it by an idolatrous compliance: for this very cause will I send that sword upon you, and it shall slay your wives, children, and fellow citizens.... [ Continue Reading ]
Though the Chaldeans are the means or instruments by which it is done, yet I will so appear against you that it shall be confessed that I did it rather than the Chaldeans. AND DELIVER YOU; defeating all your projects for escape; so was Zedekiah when he secretly fled, and his company with him, delive... [ Continue Reading ]
The enemies sword shall slay you; my just judgments shall pursue you whithersoever you flee, and overtake some of you; and ye shall know, Zedekiah and others who were judged at Riblah, 2 KINGS 25:20, THAT I AM THE LORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS CITY, Jerusalem, though it suffered unparalleled hardships, SHALL NOT BE YOUR CALDRON; shall not be the place of your sufferings; greater are reserved for you, you shall be tortured in a strange land. I WILL JUDGE YOU; do more against you, as at Riblah, 2 KINGS 25:6,7, where the captive king ha... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL KNOW; though you would not believe my threats, nor fear them, you shall feel them, and then you shall know: thus the wicked learn. I AM THE LORD, whom you should have obeyed, feared, and returned to, and who now convinceth you of his and his prophet's truth in all that was foretold you. WAL... [ Continue Reading ]
Either this refers to some particular prediction of the death of this man; as Jeremiah did of Hananiah's death, JEREMIAH 28:17; though I do not remember that Ezekiel had spoken of it before, and therefore I take the words for a usual transition. If you suppose the first guess at the meaning of, IT C... [ Continue Reading ]
It was a seasonable word to stop the mouths of the insulting Jerusalemites, and to encourage the captives at Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN: see EZEKIEL 2:1. THY BRETHREN; thy nearest kindred, which it seems were left in Jerusalem, and were grown as bad as the rest, though theirs were of a priestly lineage. Their degeneracy and unjust censure is more noted in the repetition of the word brethren. OF THY KINDRED; of the same pa... [ Continue Reading ]
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 at Jerusalem will call them apostates and renegades; but let such false accusers know that they were... [ Continue Reading ]
SAY; add to the former apology this promise. THE LORD GOD; the faithful and eternal God, the supreme and sovereign Lord. I WILL GATHER; by my advice and hand they were scattered, and by my hand they shall be gathered. ASSEMBLE YOU; and to confirm them, it is added in different words, and the promise... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY; the gathered, who assembled upon Cyrus's proclamation first, and then again upon Darius's proclamation; of which EZR 1 and EZR 8: they met together some where in the land of their captivity, and had a long journey to Jerusalem. Shall come thither; they shall overcome all difficulties, and esca... [ Continue Reading ]
AND: this may be understood causally, and so gives an account how the reformation, mentioned EZEKIEL 11:18, should be effected. I; the Lord himself, and he assumeth it to himself thrice in this verse. WILL GIVE: of free grace it is that this renewed heart is in any one; length, soreness, and multipl... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the end grace aimeth at, converting us to God, that we may walk with God. WALK: see EZEKIEL 11:12. MY STATUTES; the rule of religious worship. Mine ordinances; standards in civil affairs and matters of right and wrong with men. THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE; they shall give themselves up to me for... [ Continue Reading ]
For all those promises, and in the best times, some there will be who will refuse to own God and obey him, whose state shall as much differ as their practices did from the people of God. AS FOR THEM, whoever they be. HEART, soul and affections, whose choice and love, WALKETH AFTER; either secretly a... [ Continue Reading ]
The whole 22nd verse is in almost the same words you have in EZEKIEL 10:19, which see.... [ Continue Reading ]
See EZEKIEL 3:23, EZEKIEL 8:4 9:3 10:18,19. The glory of the Lord removes now out of the city, over which it had stood some space of time waiting for their repentance; but no fruits of this, and God now departed from them. UPON THE MOUNTAIN; above it. It was Mount Olivet, as the description of it in... [ Continue Reading ]
After all this, the same Spirit of God which carried him to Jerusalem, and to the temple, now brings him back in like manner to his captive brethren in Chaldea; not corporally, but in an ecstasy or rapture of his spirit, by the power of the Spirit of God. It was a vision from heaven, all that was re... [ Continue Reading ]
When the ecstasy was past, I SPAKE UNTO THEM; either the elders who came to him, EZEKIEL 8:1, or to the body of the people, who were in those parts where Ezekiel was; for many were scattered into other parts of Chaldea. ALL THE THINGS THAT THE LORD HAD SHOWED ME: here is his faithfulness, both to Go... [ Continue Reading ]