Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Ezekiel 11:4
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy. The repetition marks emphatic earnestness.
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy. The repetition marks emphatic earnestness.
Ezekiel 11:1. The priests and the leaders of the nation were steeped in wickedness, defied God and the judgments His prophets had announced. They devised mischief (or iniquity) and gave wicked counsel...
EZEKIEL 11. THE DEPARTURE OF YAHWEH. Ezekiel 11:1. Another Guilty Group. The doom has been executed with grim thoroughness, the guilty are all slain (Ezekiel 11:9); it is therefore surprising to come...
PROPHESY... PROPHESY. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis....
The prophet felt called to prophesy against these men and all this is part of the vision. See on ch. Ezekiel 3:21....
A. The Jerusalem Leaders Denounced 11:1-13 TRANSLATION (1) And a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the eastern gate of the house of the LORD, the one that faces east, and behold, in the entran...
III. DECLARATIONS BY THE PROPHET 11:1-25 Chapter 11 sets forth two declarations by the prophet in his vision. The first (Ezekiel 11:1-13) denounced the leaders in Jerusalem. The second brought comfort...
THE DOOM OF THE LEADERS OF JERUSALEM'S WICKEDNESS. COMFORT FOR THE EXILES The slaughter in Ezekiel 9 was only the visionary rehearsal of a judgment still in the future. The vision now takes another tu...
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 11 HOW GOD WOULD PUNISH THE LEADERS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 11:...
לָכֵ֖ן הִנָּבֵ֣א עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם הִנָּבֵ֖א בֶּן ־אָדָֽם׃...
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
The prophet was now lifted by the Spirit, and brought to the east gate, that is, to the place whither the glory of God had departed. There he saw a conclave of five and twenty men presided over by pri...
It is remarkable here again in this place, how the Lord taught his servant the Prophet by vision, and though in prison at Babylon, yet in spirit he is led to Jerusalem. Sweet teaching of the Lord, whe...
Yesterday we saw that the Jews scurrilously eluded the prophecies of Jeremiah, especially when he threatened them with God’s wrath. For he had said, that a vision was offered to him, in which Jerusale...
In chapter 11 God judges the leaders of iniquity, who comforted themselves in the thought that the city was impregnable [1]. They should be brought out from the midst thereof and be judged in the bord...
THEREFORE PROPHESY AGAINST THEM,.... Evil things against them, things that are disagreeable to them; since they flatter themselves with good things, and cry peace and safety, let them know that destru...
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. Ver. 4. _Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy._] _Urger et repetit, ne cunctetur._ Out of greatest indignation against these pests, he pr...
_Therefore prophesy against them_ Declare to them how different things shall happen to them from what they expect. _And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me_ See note on Ezekiel 3:24. _And said unto me...
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man, the repetition giving added emphasis to tile Lord's command....
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE RULERS...
1-13 Where Satan cannot persuade men to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as at a distance. These wretched rulers dare to say, We are...
For this their atheistical temper and words, tell them beforehand what they shall suffer. The charge and command is doubled, both to engage the prophet, and to intimate a doubled misery coming upon th...
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‘Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy O son of man.' Ezekiel is to raise his voice against these presumptious ideas for they were the evidence of a complacency not justified by the facts. Judah...
CONTENTS: Vision of wrath against lying princes. Promise to spare the remnant. Israel's coming restoration and converson. Departure of the glory from Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel,...
Ezekiel 11:2. _These are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city._ These twenty five men, with two princes at their head, Jaazaniah and Pelatiah, were the infidel club of th...
_Prophesy against them._ EVIL IN HIGH PLACES The spirit told Ezekiel that the princes were the men that devised mischief and gave wicked counsels to the city. How often have we seen this prostitution...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:1 Ezekiel sees 25 men—a different group from Ezekiel 8:16, and at a different location. Unlike the previous group, the problem here is not with worship but with politics, al
(4.) THE CALAMITY THREATENED TO JERUSALEM (Chap. Ezekiel 11:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The movements of the Glory of the Lord are intermitted for a time. During that interval a new condition is entered into...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 11:1 MOREOVER THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, etc. It is noticeable that the position to which Ezekiel was thus transported in his vision from his place in the inner court (Ezekiel 8:14),...
CHAPTER 11. DESTRUCTION OF A CORRUPT PRIESTHOOD, WITH THE PROMISE OF GRACE AND BLESSING TO A BELIEVING REMNANT AMONG THE EXILES. Ezekiel 11:1. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east g...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel, chapter 11. Now Ezekiel is in Babylon during the time of these prophecies, but the Spirit of God transports him back to Jerusalem. And there he sees things tha...
Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 25:2; Ezekiel 3