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Ezekiel 15:5

Behold, when it was whole, uninjured, when it was still growing, or immediately after it had been cut off, it was meet for no work, unfit for any purpose which would be of real benefit; how much less shall it be meet yet for any work when the fire hath devoured it and it is burned! that is, scorched, set afire. The two ends that had been consumed were evidently Israel and the bulk of Judah; what still remained was but a small remnant, and that subject to swift destruction.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Ezekiel 15:1. This is the first of three parables to demonstrate still further the delusion of their false hope that deliverance would come. The vine is a type of Israel Psalms 80:8; Isaiah 5:1, and...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 15. THE USELESS VINE (JERUSALEM) IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. We have seen some of the reasons why the illusion of the inviolability of Jerusalem was so hard to slay (chs. 12f.). Here we meet wit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _meet for no work_ Lit., _it could not be made into_, or, _used for_any work; how much less, when the fire hath devoured it and it is charred, shall it be any more used for, or made into any work....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER EIGHT PARABLES AND PICTURES 15:1-17:24 The justification of God's judgment against Judah continues in Chapter s 15-17, but the nature of the defense changes. Here Ezekiel employs parables or...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? BEHOLD, WHEN IT WAS WHOLE, IT WAS MEET FOR NO...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    15:5 burned, (c-24) Or 'charred;' 'parched,' Psalms 69:3 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL'S PARABLE OF THE VINE Jerusalem and Israel are compared elsewhere in Scripture to a cultivated vine, bearing or expected to bear fruit. Ezekiel's similitude, however, is that of the wild vine...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 15 A *VINE WITHOUT FRUIT – EZEKIEL 15:1-8 V1 The *LOR

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XV. This short chapter contains a single simile and its application, designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfil the purpose for which they had been chosen, were worthless, and could have no...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנֵּה֙ בִּֽ הְיֹותֹ֣ו תָמִ֔ים לֹ֥א יֵֽעָשֶׂ֖ה...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This final word on the results of reprobation leads naturally to the part of the prophecy dealing with the reason thereof. This reason is first set forth under two general figures; second, in the form...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The figure of a vine-tree is most happily chosen to describe what the Lord meant to teach the Prophet concerning Jerusalem. The vine in its flourishing state is the most luxuriant and prolific perhaps...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 15 shews that the vine-utterly useless if it bore no fruit-was fit only for fuel, and to be consumed. Thus should it be with the inhabitants of Jerusalem-a striking picture of this destruction...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, WHEN IT WAS WHOLE IT WAS MEET FOR NO WORK,.... Before it was cut into pieces, and east into the fire, it was not fit to make so much as a pin of to hang anything on; so Israel, when all togeth...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? Ver. 5. _Behold, when it was whole._] The Jews...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _What is the vine more than any tree?_ The house of Israel is often compared to a vine, which when fruitful is very profitable and valuable, but when barren is very worthless and contemptible. Of this...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MEET: _ Heb._ made fit...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 15:5 whole H8549 object H4399 made H6213 (H8735) useful H6213 (H8738) work H4399 fire H784 devoured...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Behold when it was whole it was not made into any work, how much less when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, will it yet be made into any work.” Once it is burned it is even more useless i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Vision of the burning vine. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Those who set their faces against God to contradict His Word and defeat His purposes will find His face sat against them t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    REFLECTIONS. This chapter follows in connection with the preseding, and demonstrates the failure of the various methods of providence to bring the jews back to the covenant of God; and comes to the ul...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _What is the vine tree more than any tree._ THE WORTHLESS VINE DOOMED FOR THE FIRE Founding on old similitudes, the prophet assumes that Israel is the vine, and compares it as a tree or as wood with...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 15:1 Comparing Israel to a vine is a common OT theme (e.g., Psalms 80:8; Jeremiah 2:21). (O

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISRAEL COMPARED TO THE USELESS WOOD OF A WILD VINE (Chap. 15) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In the last chapter the prophet had announced that God would not spare Jerusalem for the sake of the few righteous there...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 15:2 WHAT IS THE VINE TREE, etc.? The prophet's mind had apparently been dwelling, after the close of his previous utterance, on the imagery of earlier writers, in which Israel had...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 15. THE GUILT AND CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL PARABOLICALLY REPRESENTED. Ezekiel 15:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 15:2. Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now, in chapter 15: The word of the LORD came unto me saying, Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree (Ezekiel 15:1-2), Now you remember God said concerning the nation Israel in Isaiah,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 3:16...

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