_The word of the Lord also came_, &c. This is supposed to have happened in the sixth year of Zedekiah, and five years before the siege of Jerusalem: and the prophecies contained in the following Chapter s, to the twentieth, are thought to be of the same year. _Thou dwellest in the midst of a rebelli... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore, prepare thee stuff for removing_ Hebrew, כלי גולה, _vessels_, or _instruments of removing_, namely, such as were suited for that purpose. Get all thy goods together, and pack them up as those do that remove from one place to another. Do this openly, and at noon-day, that the people, amon... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hath not the house of Israel said_ That is, I know they have said; as the words, “are they not written in the book of Chronicles, &c.?” mean, they are written there. _What doest thou_, &c. They have inquired by way of derision and contempt, what these signs mean. _Say This burden concerneth the pri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moreover_, &c. As he was a sign to them in digging through the wall and carrying out his stuff, so he must now be a sign to them in another way. _Eat thy bread with quaking_, &c. Show all the signs of anxiety and consternation when thou takest thy common sustenance. This he was to do that he might... [ Continue Reading ]
_Son of man, what is that proverb?_ The saying become proverbial. _The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth_ Words of the same import with those that occur Ezekiel 12:27, and Ezekiel 11:3. Both of them the words of scoffers, who turned the grace of God into wantonness, and took encouragement... [ Continue Reading ]