Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Ezekiel 33:31
as the people cometh:
Heb. according to the coming of the people
sit before thee as my people:
Or, my people sit before thee
they show much love:
Heb. they make loves or jests
as the people cometh:
Heb. according to the coming of the people
sit before thee as my people:
Or, my people sit before thee
they show much love:
Heb. they make loves or jests
Verse Ezekiel 33:31. _AS THE PEOPLE COMETH_] As they are accustomed to come on public days, Sabbaths, c. _WITH THEIR MOUTH THEY SHOW MUCH LOVE_] They respected the prophet, but would not bend themsel...
The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23; then he tu...
II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48) Chapter S 33-34 A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd _ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and this alike for himself and his hearers. EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they are responsible for...
AS THE PEOPLE COMETH: or, according as an assembly cometh together. SHEW MUCH LOVE: or, counterfeit lovers. Hebrew. _agabim_. See note on next verse....
Demeanour of the people towards the prophet The confirmation which the fall of the city gave to the prophet's past predictions awakened the interest of his fellow exiles in him and his words. They co...
On "come unto thee" cf. Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 14:1; Ezekiel 20:1. as _my people_ The construction is very hard. LXX. omits. _with their mouth … love_ The language is peculiar, but can hardly have any...
DISCOURSE: 1113 THE SELF-DECEPTION OF COVETOUS PROFESSORS Ezekiel 33:31. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they healthy words, but they will not...
D. THE ATTITUDE OF THE EXILES TOWARD EZEKIEL 33:30-33 TRANSLATION (30) And as for you, son of man, the children of your people who talk about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses, and...
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goet...
§ 1. THE RESTORATION (EZEKIEL 33-39) After an introductory passage (Ezekiel 33:1), and two short prophecies against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles (Ezekiel 33:21), this sect...
THE PROPHET, THE SURVIVORS, AND THE EXILES In Ezekiel 24:27 it was announced to Ezekiel that the silence which began with his wife's death and the siege of Jerusalem would be ended when fugitives from...
AS THE PEOPLE COMETH. — In the original, _according to the coming of a people_ — _i.e.,_ in crowds. In the following clause, “as my people,” there is an emphasis on the pronoun, as the true people of...
וְ יָבֹ֣ואוּ אֵ֠לֶיךָ כִּ מְבֹוא ־עָ֞ם וְ
THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN Ezekiel 33:1 ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity with which in the East in...
Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they (q) show much love, [but] their heart g...
_In to a religious meeting. (Chaldean) Perhaps they came on the sabbath to his house. Yet they made a just and song of his instructions. (Calmet) --- They heard them with pleasure, but did not reform...
Had the Prophet Ezekiel lived in the present day of the Church, it is highly probable he would have experienced much the same treatment now as then. Who so abused behind his back, as a faithful servan...
In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations, and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
AND THEY COME UNTO THEE AS THE PEOPLE COMETH,.... As the people of God, who came to the prophets's house to hear him preach the word, and explain it for their spiritual profit and edification these ca...
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, [but] their heart g...
_The children of thy people_ Those of the captivity; _still are talking against thee_ Or rather, _of thee_, as the LXX. rightly render it; for _with their mouths they showed much love_, as it follows...
THE RELATION OF THE PEOPLE TO EZEKIEL...
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, in an assembly or crowd, as students flock to a teacher, AND THEY SIT BEFORE THEE AS MY PEOPLE, pretending to be the people of the Lord, AND THEY HEAR THY...
30-33 Unworthy and corrupt motives often lead men to the places where the word of God is faithfully preached. Many come to find somewhat to oppose: far more come of curiosity or mere habit. Men may ha...
Flocking to the school of some famous doctor, or as men and women flock to hear some famous preacher, or as they were wont to the synagogues to hear their learned scribes. So we find the elders of Jud...
Ezekiel 33:31 come H935 (H8799) people H5971 do H3996 sit H3427 (H8799) before H6440 people H5971 hear...
“And as for you, son of man, the children of your people speak of you by the walls, and in the doors of the houses, and speak to each other, every one to his brother, saying, ‘Come I pray you and hear...
Ezekiel 33:30 The experience which the young priest Ezekiel had to bear among the captives in Babylon is the same in some degree that every serious preacher of God's word has had to expect. The method...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who are not sincere in their professions. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham. CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
_They hear Thy words, but they will not do them._ THE RELIGION OF A FORMALIST I. The extent of a formal religion. There is unquestionably much about the characters here described worthy of respect a...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:30 Ezekiel’s fellow exiles may have liked his message against Israelites back home (vv. Ezekiel 33:23). Their enjoyment of the rebuke aimed at their land-grabbing rela
EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again. The early portion of the chapte...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 33:1 If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those captives who are in Babylon. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
1 John 3:17; 1 John 3:18; 1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:9; Acts 10:33;...
THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD Ezekiel 33:1, _Ezekiel 33:28_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS It may not be pleasant, but it is necessary to warn the saint and the sinner against coming judgments. 1. WE NEED TO WARN THE C...
HEARERS, BUT NOT DOERS Ezekiel 33:27 INTRODUCTORY WORDS This prophecy of Ezekiel had to do with a people who were OUTWARDLY religious, but INWARDLY were far from God. They would come before the Lord...
They come — As if they were really the people of God. They sit — So we find the elders of Judah, Ezekiel 8:1, so the disciples of the rabbis sat at their feet....