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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 11:23

The mountain which is on the east side of the city - The Mount of Olives. The rabbis commenting on this passage said the Shechinah retired to this Mount, and there for three years called in vain to the people with human voice that they should repent. On that mountain, Christ stood, when He wept over the fair city so soon to be utterly destroyed. From that mountain he descended, amid loud Hosannas, to enter the city and temple as a Judge.

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See also Ezekiel 11:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 11:23. _THE GLORY OF THE LORD WENT UP FROM THE MIDST OF THE_ _CITY_] This vision is no mean proof of the _long-suffering of God_. He did not abandon this people _all at once_; he depart...

  • 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

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1101 DEPARTURE OF GOD FROM HIS TEMPLE Ezekiel 11:23. _And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city_. THE...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD WENT UP— The Lord did not quit Jerusalem all at once; he left it by little and little. He forsook the temple before he stopped at the threshold of the city; at length he elev...

  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    STOOD UPON THE MOUNTAIN. — This mountain, on the east of the city, is that which was afterwards known as the Mount of Olives. It is considerably higher than the city, and commands a view over its enti...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֨עַל֙ כְּבֹ֣וד יְהוָ֔ה מֵ עַ֖ל תֹּ֣וךְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROMISE TO SAVE A REMNANT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 11:23 glory H3519 LORD H3068 up H5927 (H8799) midst H8432 city H5892 stood H5975 (H8799) mountain...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Then the cherubim lifted up their wings and the wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city and stood o...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:22 The vision concludes on a tragic note. God leaves his city, which means divine absence and thus death for the people. The MOUNTAIN... ON THE EAST is the Mount of Olives....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jeru...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 c...

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