Ezekiel 6:1
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, SET THY FACE TOWARD ... MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL - i:e., of Palestine in general. The mountains are addressed by personification; implying that the Israelites themselves are incurable, and unworthy of anymore appeals;... [ Continue Reading ]
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD ... TO THE RIVERS - literall... [ Continue Reading ]
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. IMAGES - called so from a Hebrew root [chaamam], to wax hot, implying the mad ardour of Israel after idolatry (Calvin). Others translate [ chamaaneeykem (H2553)], sun-images;... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. I WILL LAY THE DEAD CARCASSES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BEFORE THEIR IDOLS - polluting thus with the dead bones of you, the worshippers, the idols which seemed to... [ Continue Reading ]
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. THAT ... YOUR WORKS MAY BE ABOLISHED -... [ Continue Reading ]
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD - and not your idols, lords. Ye shall know me as the all-powerful YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD - and not your idols, lords. Ye shall know me as the all-powerful Punisher of si... [ Continue Reading ]
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. YET WILL I LEAVE A REMNANT - mitigation of the extreme severity of their punishment; still their life shall be a wretched one, and linked with exile... [ Continue Reading ]
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, AND THAT I HAVE NOT SAID IN VAIN THAT I WOULD DO THIS EVIL UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. SMITE WITH THINE HAND, AND STAMP WITH THY FOOT - gesticulations vividly setting bef... [ Continue Reading ]
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. HE THAT IS FAR OFF - namely, from the foe; those who in a distant exile fear no evil, "shall die o... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, WHEN THEIR SLAIN MEN SHALL BE AMONG THEIR IDOLS ROUND ABOUT THEIR ALTARS, UPON EVERY HIGH HILL, IN ALL THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE, AND UNDER EVERY THICK OAK, THE PLACE WHERE THEY DID OFFER SWEET SAVOUR TO ALL THEIR IDOLS._ No JFB co... [ Continue Reading ]
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. DIBLATH - another form of Diblathaim, a city in Moab (, "Almon-diblathaim;" , "Beth-diblathaim"), near whi... [ Continue Reading ]