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Ezekiel 15:8

The figure of "burning" in the fire is expressed in literal language: the land shall be made a desolation. Like his predecessor Jeremiah, the prophet sets little store by the existence of Israel as a state or kingdom among other states. Israel's mission is religious, not political. See on ch. Ezekiel 13:3.

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See also Ezekiel 15:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 15:8. _THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS_] They have _prevaricated_; they are the worst of sinners, and shall have the heaviest of punishments. Can men suppose that it is possible to hide e...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 15:1. This is the first of three parables to demonstrate still further the delusion of their false hope that deliverance would come. The vine is a type of Israel Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1, and...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 15. THE USELESS VINE (JERUSALEM) IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. We have seen some of the reasons why the illusion of the inviolability of Jerusalem was so hard to slay (chs. 12f.). Here we meet wit...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    COMMITTED. TRESPASS. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_. App-6. Hebrew "trespassed. trespass" for emphasis. committed. great trespass, as in Ezekiel 14:13. TRESPASS. Hebrew. _ma'al_, App-44. SAITH THE LO...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS— _Because they have grievously trespassed._ The Vulgate and Chaldee have it, _Because they have been prevaricators._ "They are not mere sinners," says St. Jerome...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER EIGHT PARABLES AND PICTURES 15:1-17:24 The justification of God's judgment against Judah continues in Chapter s 15-17, but the nature of the defense changes. Here Ezekiel employs parables or...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS - rather, 'they have perversely fallen into perverse rebellion....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL'S PARABLE OF THE VINE Jerusalem and Israel are compared elsewhere in Scripture to a cultivated vine, bearing or expected to bear fruit. Ezekiel's similitude, however, is that of the wild vine...

  • 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 15 A *VINE WITHOUT FRUIT – EZEKIEL 15:1-8 V1 The *LOR

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XV. This short chapter contains a single simile and its application, designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfil the purpose for which they had been chosen, were worthless, and could have no...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָתַתִּ֥י אֶת ־הָ אָ֖רֶץ שְׁמָמָ֑ה יַ֚עַן

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

    This final word on the results of reprobation leads naturally to the part of the prophecy dealing with the reason thereof. This reason is first set forth under two general figures; second, in the form...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here, as in other parts of the word of God, we find judgment following conviction. The Lord seems to expostulate, as it were, in the same language as by another Prophet: And now, O inhabitants of Jeru...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS Lord Jesus! who can read this chapter, and call to mind Thy wonderful condescension in calling Thyself the vine, without connecting with it Thy people's everlasting safety in Thee...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 15 shews that the vine-utterly useless if it bore no fruit-was fit only for fuel, and to be consumed. Thus should it be with the inhabitants of Jerusalem-a striking picture of this destruction...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL MAKE THE LAND DESOLATE,.... The land of Judea uncultivated, men and beast being cut off; see Ezekiel 14:15; BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS, SAITH THE LORD GOD; acted a treacherous...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 8. _And I will make the land desolate._] The land itself often suffereth, _propter incolarum inemen...

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

    _As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given for fuel_ That is, as the vine-tree, when barren and fruitless, like the wild trees of the forest, is given for fuel, being fit for...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, SAITH THE LORD GOD, their treachery being that of their shameless idolatry. As in the case of the Jews their guilt was increa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VINE-TREE FIT FOR BURNING ONLY. As little as the Lord, for the sake of a handful of righteous people, will spare Jerusalem, so little can a preference of Israel before other nations be alleged, as...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COMMITTED A TRESPASS: _ Heb._ trespassed a trespass...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DESOLATE: see EZEKIEL 6:14. A TRESPASS; not one single trespass, but they have been so perpetually trespassing that it seemed a continued act, and all done with greatest aggravation....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 15:8 make H5414 (H8804) land H776 desolate H8077 persisted H4603 (H8804) unfaithfulness H4604 says H5002 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “As the vine trees among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will set my face ag...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vision of the burning vine. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Those who set their faces against God to contradict His Word and defeat His purposes will find His face sat against them t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    REFLECTIONS. This chapter follows in connection with the preseding, and demonstrates the failure of the various methods of providence to bring the jews back to the covenant of God; and comes to the ul...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What is the vine tree more than any tree._ THE WORTHLESS VINE DOOMED FOR THE FIRE Founding on old similitudes, the prophet assumes that Israel is the vine, and compares it as a tree or as wood with...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 15:1 Comparing Israel to a vine is a common OT theme (e.g., Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:21). (O

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISRAEL COMPARED TO THE USELESS WOOD OF A WILD VINE (Chap. 15) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In the last chapter the prophet had announced that God would not spare Jerusalem for the sake of the few righteous there...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 15:2 WHAT IS THE VINE TREE, etc.? The prophet's mind had apparently been dwelling, after the close of his previous utterance, on the imagery of earlier writers, in which Israel had...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 15. THE GUILT AND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL PARABOLICALLY REPRESENTED. Ezekiel 15:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 15:2. Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, in chapter 15: The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree (Ezekiel 15:1-2), Now you remember God said concerning the nation Israel in Isaiah,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 33:29; Ezekiel 6:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Because — They have been so perpetually trespassing, that it seems a continued act....

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