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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 15

Ezekiel 15:1-5

_What is the vine more than any tree?_ The house of Israel is often compared to a vine, which when fruitful is very profitable and valuable, but when barren is very worthless and contemptible. Of this the prophet reminds the Jews to humble them, and awaken them to a sense of the importance of bringi... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 15:6-8

_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 nothing else; or as a vine, when barren and cut up, is thrown among other wood which is intended to... [ Continue Reading ]

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