Ezekiel 11:1

CHAPTER XI

This chapter denounces the judgments of God against those

wicked persons who remained in Jerusalem and made a mock of

the types and predictions of the prophets, 1-13;

compare Ezekiel 11:3 with Jeremiah 1:13.

God promises to favour those who were gone into captivity, and

intimates their restoration from the Babylonish yoke, 14-21.

Then the shechinah, or symbol of the Divine Presence, is

represented forsaking the city, as in the foregoing chapter it

did the temple, 22, 23;

and the prophet returns in vision to the place from which he

set out, (Ezekiel 8:1. c.,)

in order to communicate his instructions to his brethren of the

captivity, 24, 25.

NOTES ON CHAP. XI

Verse Ezekiel 11:1. At the door of the gate five and twenty men] The same persons, no doubt, who appear, Ezekiel 8:16, worshipping the sun.

Jaazaniah the son of Azur] In Ezekiel 8:16, we find a Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. If Shaphan was also called Azur, they may be the same person. But it is most likely that there were two of this name, and both chiefs among the people.