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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...
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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...
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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-...
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SWEET SAVOUR. savour of appeasement, or, rest....
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Comp. Ezekiel 6:7 on the effect of these judgments on the minds of the
people. On "idols," cf. Ezekiel 6:4. The cumulative phrases "in all
the tops of the mountains," and "under every thick oak" are w...
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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...
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Renewal of the threat of destruction because of idolatry...
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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...
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_THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, WHEN THEIR SLAIN MEN SHALL BE
AMONG THEIR IDOLS ROUND ABOUT THEIR ALTARS, UPON EVERY HIGH HILL, IN
ALL THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE, AN...
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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...
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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...
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UPON EVERY HIGH HILL. — The various localities especially selected
for idolatrous rites are enumerated one after another, to give more
vividness and graphic character to the whole judgment. The words...
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וִֽ ידַעְתֶּם֙ כִּֽי ־אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה
בִּֽ הְי
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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...
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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...
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Then shall (g) ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men]
shall be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high
hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tr...
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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...
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Now he again announces that they shall know what they have long
neglected. But here a different knowledge from the former seems to be
marked; for he has lately said that they should so remember as to...
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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,...
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THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I [AM] THE LORD,.... Whom they had denied, by
serving other gods; but now by those punishments their eyes would be
opened to see, and be obliged to acknowledge, that there was...
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Then shall ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall
be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill,
in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree,...
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_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.
_...
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Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be
among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in
all the tops of the mountains, where the idolatrous sanctuarie...
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THE FATE OF THOSE WHO REMAIN...
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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,...
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THEN SHALL YE KNOW: see EZEKIEL 6:3. UPON EVERY HIGH HILL, & c.; each
of which was accounted a fit place for such superstitions rites, and
in all which some or other of you did commit idolatry, and, s...
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Ezekiel 6:13 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 slain H2491 among H8432
idols H1544 around H5439 altars H4196 high...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both
addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and
“land” ...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...