‘Then said I, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, they say of me, is he not one who tells stories (or ‘a riddler of riddles')?” '
Here we have a very human touch. In spite of being the mouthpiece of Yahweh Ezekiel is still conscious of what his listeners feel about him. He is disconcerted once again to have to speak to them in parables, for they have clearly begun to criticise him for it and to accuse him of being ‘the riddler of riddles' (memashel meshalim).
Verse Ezekiel 20:49. _AH LORD GOD_] O my God, consider my situation; who will believe what I shall say? They put the evil day far from them. _DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES?_] הלא ממשל משלים הוא _halo m...
This paragraph is in the Hebrew text, Septuagint and Vulgate the beginning of Ezekiel 21 to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy delivered in a form which is there explained. It may, however, b...
CHAPTER S 20-24 Further and Final Predictions Concerning the judgment of Jerusalem _ 1. Jehovah rehearses His mercies bestowed upon Israel (Ezekiel 20:1) _ 2. The impending judgment announced (Ezek...
EZEKIEL 20:45 TO EZEKIEL 21:32. THE TERRIBLE SWORD OF NEBUCHADREZZAR. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory is followed by a poem this time a wild irregular dithyra...
PARABLES. Thus intended to have the same purpose as the Lord's parables. See Matthew 13:11....
Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord The passage Ezekiel 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of Nebu...
_speak parables_ or, similitudes with the suggested idea that there lies no reality behind them (Ezekiel 12:21-28). The prophet, indeed, cannot utter a statement plainly, he must throw it first into a...
DISCOURSE: 1110 MEN’S TREATMENT OF THE GOSPEL Ezekiel 20:49. _Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?_ THE word of God, by whomsoever spoken, should be received with rev...
DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES?— Though these prophesies were clear enough, if they would have given themselves the trouble to have considered and compared them with the state of things; yet, as the under...
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version an...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, MOREOVER THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME. An introductory brief description, in enigma, of the destruction by fire and sword detailed more exp...
§ 5. A FINAL SERIES OF PROPHECIES ON THE NECESSITY OF ISRAEL'S PUNISHMENT AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (EZEKIEL 20-24) Date, Aug.-Sept. 590 b.c. to Jan.-Feb. 587 b.c. This group includes a warning...
THE SWORD OF THE LORD AGAINST JERUSALEM (AND AMMON?) Ezekiel 21 of the Hebrew Bible begins with Ezekiel 20:45 of the English. It is mainly concerned with Jerusalem (Ezekiel 20:45 to...
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 20 * God is patient. He gives people every opportunity to *...
DOTH HE NOT SPEAK PARABLES? — Or enigmas — things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did designedly, as he had done in other cases, to awaken the attention of the people to the explanation he...
_[Ezekiel 21:5]_ וָ אֹמַ֕ר אֲהָ֖הּ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה...
JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL Ezekiel 20:1 BY far the hardest trial of Ezekiel's faith must have been the conduct of his fellow-exiles. It was amongst them that he looked for the great spiritual...
In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the seventh year of the reign of Jehoiachin, that is four...
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak (z) parables? (z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires the Lord to give them a plain declaration of it....
_Parables. They were easy enough to understand, but the Jews would not comprehend them no more than our Saviour's words, John x. 24. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS READER! what an awful account is here given, and by the Lord Himself, of a congregation of worshippers. Are there any such in the present hour? Alas! it is to be feared but too many; for,...
This seems a new discourse, or, if it be not, it is only as a postscript to a letter. The former was delivered concerning the Church in Babylon, and this is directed concerning the people at Jerusalem...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 20 AND 21. Chapter 20 begins a new prophecy, which, with its subdivisions, continues to the end of chapter 23. It will have been remarked that the general div...
THEN SAID I, AH LORD GOD!.... The Septuagint version is, "by no means, Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such an errand; at least, let it not be delivered in such figurative terms; or let no...
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ver. 49. _Doth he not speak parables?_] _Nonne artifex est parabolarum iste? Qui erga non vult intelligi, vult negligi._ _a_ He i...
_Moreover, the word of the Lord_, &c. Here we have a new prophecy, with which Houbigant, following many learned commentators, begins the xxist chapter, and that very properly; for what is contained in...
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! They say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ezekiel thus complaining that his countrymen could not understand this form of message and therefore despised and rejected his wa...
THE PICTURE OF THE FOREST FIRE...
45-49 Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, as a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who bring not forth the fruits of righteousness. When He will ruin a na...
When the prophet had done his duty, and prophesied, and they should have heard and understood, he returns with a complaint of their quarrelling, censuring, flouting, and reproaching him for it: one wh...
Ezekiel 20:49 said H559 (H8799) Ah H162 Lord H136 GOD H3069 say H559 (H8802) speak H4911 ...
Ezekiel 20:49 Nothing is more disheartening, if we must believe it to be true, than the language in which some persons talk of the difficulties of the Scriptures, and the absolute certainty that diffe...
CONTENTS: Jehovah vindicated in the chastising of Israel. Israel's future judgment. Parable of the forest of the south field. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God takes it as an affront when tho...
Ezekiel 20:1. _The elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me._ They still respected the divine καρισματα, or holy anointing of the Spirit; but they sought it for a reverse of the...
_Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables._ MYSTERY AND DOGMA IN RELIGION There is a tone of remonstrance and expostulation in these words of the prophet. He is evidently conscious tha...
(Ezekiel 20:45) EXEGETICAL NOTES. The destruction of Jerusalem under the image of a forest devoured by fire. A comparison of these verses with Ezekiel 21:2, shows that they belong properly to Ch. 21...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 20:1 A new date is given, and includes what follows to Ezekiel 23:49. The last note of time was in Ezekiel 8:1, and eleven months and five days had passed, during which the prop
CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21. THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD. THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed, should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
Now it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me (Ezekiel 20:1). Now this e...
Acts 17:18; John 16:25; Matthew 13:13; Matthew 13:14...
Parables — So absolutely, that we cannot understand him....