Ezekiel 11:1
Jaazaniah — Not him that is mentioned Ezekiel 8:11. Pelatiah — Named here for that dreadful sudden death, whereby he became a warning to others.... [ Continue Reading ]
Jaazaniah — Not him that is mentioned Ezekiel 8:11. Pelatiah — Named here for that dreadful sudden death, whereby he became a warning to others.... [ Continue Reading ]
He — The Lord sitting on the cherub.... [ Continue Reading ]
It — The threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans. The caldron — This is an impious scoff, yet mixt with some fear of the prophet, Jeremiah 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye — Many murders have you committed yourselves, and you are accountable to God for all those whom the Chaldeans have slain, seeing you persuaded them, thus obstinately to stand out.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bring you forth — Not in mercy, but in wrath, by the conquering hand of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deliver you — Defeating all your projects for escape.... [ Continue Reading ]
Will judge — My just judgments shall pursue you, whithersoever you fly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Your caldron — The place of your sufferings; greater are reserved for you in a strange land. Judge you — I will do more against you at Riblah, where the captive king had his children, and others with them, first murdered before his eyes, and then his own eyes put out; Riblah is called the border of... [ Continue Reading ]
Pelatiah — Mentioned Ezekiel 11:1, a principal man among the twenty — five princes, who made all the mischief in Jerusalem. It should seem this was done in vision now, (as the slaying of the ancient men, Ezekiel 9:6,) but it was an assurance, that when this prophecy was published, it would be done i... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy brethren — Thy nearest kindred, which it seems were left in Jerusalem. Their degeneracy is more noted in the repetition of the word brethren. Gone far — Ye are gone far from the Lord; as much as the Heathens accused the Christians of atheism.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 countries which are under the king of Babylon: yet they are dear to me. A little sanctuary — A little one i... [ Continue Reading ]
They — They who assemble upon Cyrus's proclamation first, and then upon Darius's proclamation, shall overcome all difficulties, dispatch the journey, and come safely to their own land. Take away — They shall abolish superstition and idolatry from the temple.... [ Continue Reading ]
One heart — Cyrus shall give them leave, and I will give them a heart to return; and on their way shall there be great utility; and, when come to Jerusalem, they shall own me, and my laws, and with one consent, build Jerusalem and the temple, and restore true religion. The stony — That hard, inflexi... [ Continue Reading ]
Heart — Soul and affections. Walketh — Either secretly adhere to, or provide for the service of idols, called here detestable things.... [ Continue Reading ]
Went up — The glory of the Lord removes now out of the city, over which it had stood some time, waiting for their repentance. The mountain — Mount Olivet. He removed thither, to be as it were within call, and ready to return, if now at length in this their day, they would have understood the things... [ Continue Reading ]
The spirit — The same spirit which carried him to Jerusalem, now brings him back to Chaldea. Went up — Was at an end.... [ Continue Reading ]