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Jeremiah 14; Jeremiah 15 is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy.
Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver to the exiles
the same message which Jeremiah conveys to the inhabitants of J...
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Ezekiel 14:1. These inquiring elders, with wickedness in their hearts,
give another illustration of the depth of degradation in which the
people had sunk. He who searches the hearts knew what was in t...
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THE RIGHTEOUS CANNOT SAVE THE CITY, BUT ONLY THEMSELVES. In spite of
all Ezekiel's visions and warnings, the people still cherish the
illusion that Jerusalem will be spared if for no other reason, at...
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_neither sons nor daughters_ There is no support in the words for the
idea of Hävernick that the three names, Noah, Daniel and Job form a
climax, inasmuch as Noah saved his children, Daniel only his t...
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The presence of righteous men among a sinful people will not save the
sinners
The passage may be in answer to thoughts which the prophet felt might
rise in the minds of those to whom he spoke. He thr...
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B. Presence of Righteous Men 14:12-23
TRANSLATION
(12) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (13) Son of man,
when a land sins against Me by trespassing grievously, and I stretch
out My hand...
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If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil
it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of
the beasts:
The argument is cumulative. He first puts the case...
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A DIVINE PRINCIPLE AND AN APPARENT EXCEPTION
As a rule when God punishes a land for its wickedness by such
judgments as famine, wild beasts, sword, or pestilence, the presence
in it of the most eminen...
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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 14
WICKED LEADERS – EZEKIEL 14:1-23
V1 Some of *Is
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(15-20) In these verses the same declaration is repeated, for the sake
of emphasis, with each one of three other instruments of punishment,
with only such variations of phraseology as are required for...
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שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת הָ אֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ אֵלֶּה֮
בְּ תֹוכָ
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Certain of the elders of Israel now came to Ezekiel, evidently to hear
what message he had to deliver to them. The word of the Lord revealed
to him that whatever their outward attitude might be, they...
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We have no difficulty in explaining sin as the cause of sorrow. The
four sore judgments of God, famine, the sword, wild beasts, and
pestilence, are among the rods by which guilty nations, in all ages,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
Chapter 13 judges the prophets who deceived the people in Jerusalem by
their pretended visions of peace. In chapter 14 the elders of Israel
come an...
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[THOUGH] THESE THREE MEN [WERE] IN IT,.... Above named, Noah, Daniel,
and Job; as they were not, two of them not being in the land of the
living, and the other in Babylon; but if all three had been in...
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Ezekiel 14:16 [Though] these three men [were] in it, [as] I live,
saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters;
they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.
Ver....
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_If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land_ We find it was
one punishment of the inhabitants of Judea, to be infested by lions
and other wild beasts. To this their neighbourhood to the desert...
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though these three men were in it, paragons of virtue though they
were, AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD GOD, the sovereign Ruler of the world,
using the most solemn oath possible for Him, THEY SHALL DELIVER...
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God's Irrevocable Sentence...
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IN IT:
_ Heb._ in the midst of it...
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12-23 National sins bring national judgments. Though sinners escape
one judgment, another is waiting for them. When God's professing
people rebel against him, they may justly expect all his judgments...
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AS I LIVE; a form of speech in which God by oath confirms what he
speaketh, and it is such an oath as becomes him only, who is life, and
cannot die. NEITHER SONS NOR DAUGHTERS; neither sons that shoul...
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“If I cause dangerous wild beasts to pass through the land, and they
despoil it so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through
because of the beasts, though these three men were in it, as I live...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the elders of Israel. Jerusalem on no account to
be spared.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Noah, Job, Daniel.
CONCLUSION: Many who have no idols in their sanctuary have idols in
their...
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Ezekiel 14:1. _Then came certain of the elders of Israel,_ ex-judges
and magistrates in Judea. They were all idolaters, yet they wished to
know whether there were any hope of their return to Jerusalem...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 14:12 Five distinct paragraphs make up this
oracle. The first four describe four forms of divine judgment on
Jerusalem: famine (vv. Ezekiel 14:12); beasts (vv....
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JUDAH AND JERUSALEM CANNOT CLAIM EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENTS BECAUSE OF
THE RIGHTEOUS FEW THEREIN (Ezekiel 14:12)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 14:12. “WHEN THE LAND SINNETH AGAINST
ME BY TRESPASSING GRIEVO...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 14:1
As the result, probably, of the previous utterances, certain ELDERS OF
ISRAEL, _i_._e_. of the exiles in Tel-Abib, came to consult Ezekiel,
wishing to know what counsels or wh...
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CHAPTER 14.
HYPOCRITICAL INQUIRERS AFTER GOD THEIR WICKEDNESS DISCOVERED AND
REBUKED.
Ezekiel 14:1. _And there came to me some of the elders of Israel and
sat before me._
Ezekiel 14:2. _And the wor...
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Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men
have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling...
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Acts 27:24; Ezekiel 14:14; Ezekiel 14:18; Ezekiel 14:20; Ezekiel 33