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Verse Ezekiel 33:27. _THEY THAT_ ARE _IN THE WASTES_] He seems to
speak of those Jews who had fled to _rocks, caves_, and _fortresses_,
in the _mountains_; whose death he predicts, partly by the _swor...
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The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant
that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against
presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23; then he
tu...
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II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48)
Chapter S 33-34
A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd
_ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
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NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and
this alike for himself and his hearers.
EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they
are responsible for...
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The "wastes" are the desolate cities; those that still hover about
these ruins shall be slain by the enemy. The "open field" is the
country, now depopulated and "the possession of wild beasts;" and th...
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The confirmation by the fugitives of all his previous predictions gave
the prophet boldness to speak anew, and what he says is but a
continuation of that which he had said before, and had been so
lite...
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THEY THAT ARE IN THE WASTES— _They that_ [_trust_] _in the swords._
The _forts_ and _caves_ here mentioned, mean the strong-holds formed
by nature in the rocks, or cut in the sides of the mountains.
P...
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C. The Fall of Jerusalem and Further Prophecies
33:21-29
TRANSLATION
(21) And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, the
tenth month, the fifth day of the month, the fugitive from Jerus...
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§ 1. THE RESTORATION (EZEKIEL 33-39)
After an introductory passage (Ezekiel 33:1), and two short prophecies
against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles
(Ezekiel 33:21), this sect...
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THE PROPHET, THE SURVIVORS, AND THE EXILES
In Ezekiel 24:27 it was announced to Ezekiel that the silence which
began with his wife's death and the siege of Jerusalem would be ended
when fugitives from...
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IN THE FORTS — is rather, in the natural fastnesses in which the
land abounded....
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כֹּֽה ־תֹאמַ֨ר אֲלֵהֶ֜ם כֹּה ־אָמַ֨ר
אֲדֹנָ֣י...
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THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN
Ezekiel 33:1
ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the
Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity
with which in the East in...
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Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen
nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities
of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
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By comparing what the Prophet Jeremiah, in his history of the Church
hath recorded, with what is here written, we discover that it was a
whole year, and more, from the destruction of Jerusalem to Ezek...
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In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on
entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations,
and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
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SAY THOU THUS UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Send or write
unto them in the name of the Lord, after this manner,
AS I LIVE, which is the form of an oath; the Lord swears by himself
his life,...
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_Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; [As] I live, surely
they that [are] in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that
[is] in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devour...
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_Surely they that are in the wastes_ They who continue to dwell among
the desolations of Jerusalem and Judea; _shall fall by the sword_ This
they accordingly did, both through the civil dissensions am...
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THE RELATION OF THE PEOPLE TO EZEKIEL...
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Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, the God of the
covenant, who is at the same time the Ruler of the universe, AS I
LIVE, the most solemn oath which He is able to swear, SURELY THEY THA...
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TO BE DEVOURED:
_ Heb._ to devour him...
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21-29 Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence
upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in
the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct...
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THE WASTES; the ruinous heaps of cities or towns, in which some sorry
habitations might possibly be found by them. SHALL FALL; the Chaldean
soldier ransacking all places, and either expecting or by ch...
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Ezekiel 33:27 Say H559 (H8799) says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069
live H2416 ruins H2723 fall...
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“Thus shall you say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Surely those
who are in the waste places will fall by the sword, and he who is in
the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and t...
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CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who
are not sincere in their professions.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham.
CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
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Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for
their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when
the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:1 After the Fall of Jerusalem. Following
the central collection of foreign-nation oracles, the focus returns to
Judah (or “the house of Israel,” as Ezekiel usually calls it)...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:23 Ezekiel addresses those left in Judah
after its fall. The Judeans’ logic of arguing (v. Ezekiel 33:24)
from God’s blessings to the one
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EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY
PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again.
The early portion of the chapte...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 33:1
If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own
prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a
sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
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Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those
captives who are in Babylon.
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
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1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 22:1; 1 Samuel 23:14; 1 Samuel 24:3; Ezeki
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HEARERS, BUT NOT DOERS
Ezekiel 33:27
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
This prophecy of Ezekiel had to do with a people who were OUTWARDLY
religious, but INWARDLY were far from God. They would come before the
Lord...