And the slain shall fail in the midst of you, so that some, indeed, would still be delivered, and ye shall know that I am the Lord, the one and only true God, as contrasted with the idols, which have no true existence and pass away under the blows of the enemy's hammer. The falling of the slain, of the idolaters with their idols, leads to the knowledge of Jehovah as the almighty Lord.
The force of the words is, “When the slain shall fall in the midst of you, then at last ye shall know that I am the Lord.” So in Ezekiel 6:10 where the knowledge implies a recognition of the merciful...
Ezekiel 6:1. The mountains of Israel are mentioned first, because they were the places where the people practiced idolatry; they were the high places so often mentioned in the historical books. (Read...
EZEKIEL 6. THE DOOM OF THE SINFUL MOUNTAINS. Ezekiel 6:1. Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced, or rather the...
THE SLAIN. a slain one. YE SHALL KNOW THAT AM THE LORD, This formula occurs twenty-one times in Ezekiel: five times at the beginning of. verse (Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 11:12; Ezekiel 20:42;...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
_I_am _the Lord_ The term Jehovah is used in the later prophets to mean the true and only God. In this prophet the purpose and the effect of all the judgments on Israel is that they may know that he w...
II. DISOBEDIENCE AND DESOLATION 6:1-14 In his second discourse Ezekiel zeroes in on the places of idolatrous worship which were located in the mountains and valleys of Judah. These pagan sanctuaries,...
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...
The Guilt (or Trespass) Offering. Two cases are mentioned in which it is proper to bring a guilt offering. The first (Leviticus 5:15) is that of a person who occasions loss to the sanctuary by either...
A PROPHECY AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN LAND OF ISRAEL The coming judgment is here announced to the land of Israel, which is identified with the people. Ezekiel 6:8, following up the hint in Ezekiel 5:3, spe...
YE SHALL KNOW THAT I _am_ THE LORD] Ezekiel's favourite expression for the result of God's dealings with men in prophecy and in history. It means the recognition now of one, now of another, aspect of...
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 6 GOD WILL BREAK THE *ALTARS AND REMOVE THE FALSE GODS – EZE...
AND YE SHALL KNOW. — As this prophecy began in Ezekiel 6:2 with an address to the mountains, many consider that, by a strong poetic figure, they are still referred to by the pronoun _ye._ It is better...
וְ נָפַ֥ל חָלָ֖ל בְּ תֹֽוכְכֶ֑ם וִֽ ידַעְתֶּ֖
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
These signs were followed by denunciations growing naturally out of what they had taught. In general terms, the prophet first foretold the coming judgment of the sword against the whole land, and the...
By the mountains of Israel, is meant the higher order of the people of Israel; such as exalted themselves above their fellows, and perhaps prided themselves in being exempt from popular fear and appre...
Here the Prophet adds a small clause to his former threats, namely, that God would so consume the whole people with slaughter, that they would be compelled to acknowledge him as Jehovah. _The slain, _...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
AND THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE MIDST OF YOU,.... The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some prin...
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD. Ver. 7. _And ye shall know that I am the Lord._] That I am _dicti mei Dominus,_ one that will be as good as my wo...
_Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel_ Turn thy face to that part where Judea is situated. Judea was a hilly country; therefore that whole land is expressed here and elsewhere by _the mountains...
When the slain shall fall thus in your sight, you shall know two things you would not regard before. 1. That idols are vanity and snares. 2. That I am the Lord, who do avenge the quarrel of my covena...
Ezekiel 6:7 slain H2491 fall H5307 (H8804) midst H8432 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 slain -...
“In all your dwelling places 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 yo...
CONTENTS: Message against the mountains of Israel. Remnant to be spared. Desolations upon the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will fir...
Ezekiel 6:3. _I will destroy your high places,_ all the necessaries of idolatry. במות _bomoth,_ Βουνοι, thence Βωμοι. _Your high altars._ In Montfaucon's Antiquities we have various views of heathen a...
_Ye shall know that I am the Lord._ THE KNOWLEDGE OF JEHOVAH The phrase “Ye shall know that I am Jehovah” may mean Ye shall know that I who now speak am truly Jehovah, the God of Israel. There is, of...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and “land” ...
4. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF ISRAEL’S CONDUCT (Chap. 6) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_The judgment on places of idolatry and the worshippers_ (Ezekiel 6:1). After asserting, in Ezekiel 6:1,...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 6:2, EZEKIEL 6:3 SET THY FACE TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, in...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel the sixth chapter. Ezekiel here addresses himself to the mountains of Israel. The people of Israel had built places of worship on the tops of the mountains, but...
Ezekiel 16:39; Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 5:14; Habakkuk 2:18; Hosea 10:2