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Verse Ezekiel 15:8. _THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS_] They have
_prevaricated_; they are the worst of sinners, and shall have the
heaviest of punishments. Can men suppose that it is possible to hide
e...
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Ezekiel 15:1. This is the first of three parables to demonstrate still
further the delusion of their false hope that deliverance would come.
The vine is a type of Israel Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1, and...
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EZEKIEL 15. THE USELESS VINE (JERUSALEM) IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. We
have seen some of the reasons why the illusion of the inviolability of
Jerusalem was so hard to slay (chs. 12f.). Here we meet wit...
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The figure of "burning" in the fire is expressed in literal language:
the land shall be made a desolation. Like his predecessor Jeremiah,
the prophet sets little store by the existence of Israel as a...
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BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS— _Because they have
grievously trespassed._ The Vulgate and Chaldee have it, _Because they
have been prevaricators._ "They are not mere sinners," says St.
Jerome...
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CHAPTER EIGHT
PARABLES AND PICTURES
15:1-17:24
The justification of God's judgment against Judah continues in Chapter
s 15-17, but the nature of the defense changes. Here Ezekiel employs
parables or...
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And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS - rather, 'they have
perversely fallen into perverse rebellion....
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EZEKIEL'S PARABLE OF THE VINE
Jerusalem and Israel are compared elsewhere in Scripture to a
cultivated vine, bearing or expected to bear fruit. Ezekiel's
similitude, however, is that of the wild vine...
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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 15
A *VINE WITHOUT FRUIT – EZEKIEL 15:1-8
V1 The *LOR
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XV.
This short chapter contains a single simile and its application,
designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfil the purpose for
which they had been chosen, were worthless, and could have no...
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וְ נָתַתִּ֥י אֶת ־הָ אָ֖רֶץ שְׁמָמָ֑ה
יַ֚עַן
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This final word on the results of reprobation leads naturally to the
part of the prophecy dealing with the reason thereof. This reason is
first set forth under two general figures; second, in the form...
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REFLECTIONS
PRECIOUS Lord Jesus! who can read this chapter, and call to mind Thy
wonderful condescension in calling Thyself the vine, without
connecting with it Thy people's everlasting safety in Thee...
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Here, as in other parts of the word of God, we find judgment following
conviction. The Lord seems to expostulate, as it were, in the same
language as by another Prophet: And now, O inhabitants of Jeru...
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Chapter 15 shews that the vine-utterly useless if it bore no fruit-was
fit only for fuel, and to be consumed. Thus should it be with the
inhabitants of Jerusalem-a striking picture of this destruction...
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AND I WILL MAKE THE LAND DESOLATE,.... The land of Judea uncultivated,
men and beast being cut off; see Ezekiel 14:15;
BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED A TRESPASS, SAITH THE LORD GOD; acted a
treacherous...
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And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 8. _And I will make the land desolate._] The land itself often
suffereth, _propter incolarum inemen...
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_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...
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THE VINE-TREE FIT FOR BURNING ONLY.
As little as the Lord, for the sake of a handful of righteous people,
will spare Jerusalem, so little can a preference of Israel before
other nations be alleged, as...
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And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a
trespass, SAITH THE LORD GOD, their treachery being that of their
shameless idolatry. As in the case of the Jews their guilt was
increa...
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COMMITTED A TRESPASS:
_ Heb._ trespassed a trespass...
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DESOLATE: see EZEKIEL 6:14. A TRESPASS; not one single trespass, but
they have been so perpetually trespassing that it seemed a continued
act, and all done with greatest aggravation....
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Ezekiel 15:8 make H5414 (H8804) land H776 desolate H8077 persisted
H4603 (H8804) unfaithfulness H4604 says H5002 ...
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‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “As the vine trees among the
trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have
I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will set my face ag...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the burning vine.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: Those who set their faces against God to contradict His
Word and defeat His purposes will find His face sat against them t...
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REFLECTIONS. This chapter follows in connection with the preseding,
and demonstrates the failure of the various methods of providence to
bring the jews back to the covenant of God; and comes to the ul...
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_What is the vine tree more than any tree._
THE WORTHLESS VINE DOOMED FOR THE FIRE
Founding on old similitudes, the prophet assumes that Israel is the
vine, and compares it as a tree or as wood with...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 15:1 Comparing Israel to a vine is a common
OT theme (e.g., Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:21). (O
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ISRAEL COMPARED TO THE USELESS WOOD OF A WILD VINE (Chap. 15)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In the last chapter the prophet had announced that
God would not spare Jerusalem for the sake of the few righteous
there...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 15:2
WHAT IS THE VINE TREE, etc.? The prophet's mind had apparently been
dwelling, after the close of his previous utterance, on the imagery of
earlier writers, in which Israel had...
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CHAPTER 15.
THE GUILT AND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL PARABOLICALLY REPRESENTED.
Ezekiel 15:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_
Ezekiel 15:2. Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any...
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Now, in chapter 15:
The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, What is the vine
tree more than any tree (Ezekiel 15:1-2),
Now you remember God said concerning the nation Israel in Isaiah,...
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2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 33:29; Ezekiel 6:14;...
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Because — They have been so perpetually trespassing, that it seems a
continued act....