which say, It is not near; let us build houses, literally, "not in near proximity building of houses," that is, the threatened ruin of the city is entirely out of the question, wherefore it is not necessary to worry about the building or the rebuilding of Jerusalem; this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh, that is, they considered themselves as safe and as protected in their city as the flesh is in the pot.
Verse Ezekiel 11:3. _IT IS NOT NEAR_] That is, the threatened invasion. _THIS_ CITY IS _THE CALDRON, AND WE_ BE _THE FLESH._] See the vision of the _seething pot_, Jeremiah 1:13. These infidels seem...
IT IS NOT NEAR - In contradiction to Ezekiel 7:2. LET US BUILD HOUSES - “To build houses” implies a sense of security. Jeremiah bade the exiles “build houses” in a foreign land because they would not...
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...
THIS CITY. it (or she), as in verses: Ezekiel 11:7; Ezekiel 11:11....
It is _not near;_let us _build_ Rather as R.V. THE TIME TO BUILD HOUSES IS NOT NEAR, lit. _the building of houses is not near_. The phrase "to build houses" is to be taken as in ch. Ezekiel 28:26, "An...
THIS CITY IS THE CALDRON— _When they say, that doth not yet hang over, or threaten us, that our houses should be the caldron, and we the flesh._ Jeremiah, as well as Ezekiel himself, foretold the dest...
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...
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. IT IS NOT NEAR - namely, the destruction of the city; therefore "let us build houses," as if there was...
11:3 time (b-7) Lit. 'not near.' houses. (c-10) See Jeremiah 29:5 . this (d-11) i.e. the city. so vers. 7,11. see ch. 24.6....
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...
IT IS NOT NEAR; LET US BUILD, etc.] or, as in RM, 'Is not the time near to build?' etc: an expression of security. THIS _city is_ THE CALDRON, etc.] The 'wicked counsel' of Ezekiel 11:2 is usually und...
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:...
IT IS NOT NEAR; LET US BUILD HOUSES. -Neither the text nor the marginal reading of the Authorised Version quite accurately represent the original. The expression is literally _not near to build houses...
הָ אֹ֣מְרִ֔ים לֹ֥א בְ קָרֹ֖וב בְּנֹ֣ות בָּתִּ
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...
Who say, (a) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the (b) caldron, and we [are] the flesh. (a) Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefore...
Built, &c. These men despised the predictions and threats of the prophets; who declared them to be from God, that the city should be destroyed and the inhabitants carried into captivity: and they made...
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...
Here the Prophet explains what might be obscure through their perverseness. He brings forward, therefore, what the impious thought could be covered by many fallacies. For we know that hypocrites endea...
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...
WHICH SAY [IT IS] NOT NEAR, LET US BUILD HOUSES,.... Meaning that the destruction of the city was not near, as the prophet had foretold, Ezekiel 7:3; and therefore encourage the people to build houses...
Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh. Ver. 3. _Which say, It is not near,_] _sc., _ The evil day is not. The vision that he seeth is for...
_Moreover the spirit lifted me up_ It seems it should rather have been rendered, _And the spirit had lifted me up_, for here he appears to go back to speak about those twenty-five men of whom he made...
IT IS NOT NEAR, LET US BUILD HOUSES: Or, it is not for us to build houses near...
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...
What counsel was by these men given appears by their words. IT IS NOT NEAR; either the threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans; or else, build, but not in the suburbs, not near, but in the city, t...
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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
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:2 CAULDRON... MEAT. The imagery is best understood to indicate fear that led to mistrusting God. The idea is further developed in ch. Ezekiel
(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...
2 Peter 3:4; Amos 6:5; Ezekiel 11:7; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 12:27;...
It — The threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans. The caldron — This is an impious scoff, yet mixt with some fear of the prophet, Jeremiah 1:13....