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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Ezekiel 11:8

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.

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See also Ezekiel 11:8 in other biblical comments:

  • 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

    EZEKIEL 11. THE DEPARTURE OF YAHWEH. Ezekiel 11:1. Another Guilty Group. The doom has been executed with grim thoroughness, the guilty are all slain (Ezekiel 11:9); it is therefore surprising to come...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YE HAVE FEARED, &c. Compare Jeremiah 42:16. I WILL BRING. SWORD, &c. See note on Ezekiel 5:17. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _have feared_ YE FEAR. The language of the ruling class, in spite of its recklessness (Ezekiel 11:3), betrays the consciousness of the risks they incur; and their fears shall be more than verified....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. The Jerusalem Leaders Denounced 11:1-13 TRANSLATION (1) And a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the eastern gate of the house of the LORD, the one that faces east, and behold, in the entran...

  • 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. YE HAVE FEARED THE SWORD. The Chaldean sword, to escape which ye abandoned your God, shall be brought on you by God...

  • 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...

  • 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:...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    חֶ֖רֶב יְרֵאתֶ֑ם וְ חֶ֨רֶב֙ אָבִ֣יא עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The same Almighty Spirit, which lifted the Prophet up, here fell upon him, that he might not fall down. And I pray the Reader to observe, the gracious effects which follow, in the Lord's promises, in...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    We ought to join these verses together, because the Prophet treats the same thing in many words. First _he denounces that they should perish by the sword since they feared the sword _By these words he...

  • 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

    YE HAVE FEARED THE SWORD,.... Of the Chaldeans; and therefore they sent to the Egyptians for help. The Targum is, "ye have been afraid of them that kill with the sword;'' and not afraid of the Lord;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 8. _Ye have feared the sword._] And yet they made as if they feared nothing; they doubted not but to die in their...

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

    _Ye have feared the sword_ Of the Chaldeans; and have, to avoid it, courted them, and left my worship to follow their idolatrous rites: but this very sword will I bring upon you. _And I will deliver y...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye have feared the sword, for they had refused to follow the advice of Jeremiah to give themselves up to the Babylonians, since they were afraid of being put to death by them; AND I WILL BRING A SWORD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT UPON THE RULERS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 Where Satan cannot persuade men to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as at a distance. These wretched rulers dare to say, We are...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 11:8 feared H3372 (H8804) sword H2719 bring H935 (H8686) sword H2719 says H5002 (H8803) Lord...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and...

  • 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

    _Prophesy against them._ EVIL IN HIGH PLACES The spirit told Ezekiel that the princes were the men that devised mischief and gave wicked counsels to the city. How often have we seen this prostitution...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:1 Ezekiel sees 25 men—a different group from Ezekiel 8:16, and at a different location. Unlike the previous group, the problem here is not with worship but with politics, al

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:7 The focus here is on the distinction between the court officials and the people who have been killed. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (4.) THE CALAMITY THREATENED TO JERUSALEM (Chap. Ezekiel 11:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The movements of the Glory of the Lord are intermitted for a time. During that interval a new condition is entered into...

  • 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

    1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 24:17;...

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