_THE FINAL DESOLATION OF ISRAEL. THE MOURNFUL REPENTANCE OF THEM WHO ESCAPE. THE ENEMIES DEFILE THE SANCTUARY BECAUSE OF THE ISRAELITES' ABOMINATIONS. UNDER THE TYPE OF A CHAIN, IS SHEWED THEIR MISERABLE CAPTIVITY._ _Before Christ 594._... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO, THOU SON OF MAN, &C.— _Thou son of man shalt say these things; Thus saith the Lord God concerning the land of Israel._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN EVIL, AN ONLY EVIL, &C.— _Behold, calamity shall come after calamity._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MORNING IS COME UPON THEE— _Straits come upon thee, O thou,_ &c. _The day of trouble is near, and not of mirth._ Houbigant. Those who understand the passage according to our translation, suppose the meaning to be, "God's judgments shall overtake thee speedily and unexpectedly;" and that the expr... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MORNING IS GONE FORTH— _The bud is put forth,_ or _hath arisen,_ &c. Houbigant. Possibly the prophet, using the word מטה _matteh,_ which signifies both a _rod_ and a _tribe,_ intends to point out the once flourishing state of the tribe of Judah. The next verse has greatly perplexed the commentat... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ezekiel 7:12. For wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. For my wrath it upon all their riches._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALTHOUGH THEY WERE YET ALIVE— _Nor shall their agreements stand among them while living; for their agreements shall not cause their riches to return: whoever maketh an agreement in his iniquity, it shall not be confirmed._ Houbigant; who renders the last clause in the next verse like that in the 12t... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKE DOVES OF THE VALLEYS— There can be no reason, says Houbigant, why it should be rendered, _doves of the valleys;_ the true rendering is, _like mourning doves: they shall be in the mountains mourning like doves. Death shall consume them every one in his iniquity._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR GOLD SHALL BE REMOVED— _Shall be vile refuse,_ or, _become despicable._ Houbigant reads the last clause, _After their iniquity hath brought on their ruin._... [ Continue Reading ]
AS FOR THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT— Houbigant's translation is, _They made of it_ [the gold] _beautiful and splendid ornaments, with which they adorned the abominable images of their gods: therefore will I cause it to be esteemed impure among them._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SHALL POLLUTE MY SECRET PLACE— _My treasures shall be esteemed as profane; for the robbers shall come, who shall pollute them._ Houbigant. Others understand this of the profanation of the temple, and of the Holy of Holies, by the Chaldeans.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE A CHAIN— That is, as emblematical of the approaching captivity, when king and people should be carried in chains to Babylon. See 2 Kings 25:7. Jeremiah 40:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORST OF THE HEATHEN— _The shepherds of the heathen._ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL DO UNTO THEM AFTER THEIR WAY, &C.— So _will I do unto them, as have been their own ways; I will judge them as they judged;_ for in the 23rd verse it is said that the land was full of bloody crimes or judgments; because the blood of the innocent was shed by unjust judgment. Here it is said tha... [ Continue Reading ]