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 mountains, partly because the mountains were the conspicuous and characteristic feature of Canaan: b... [ Continue Reading ]
The object of all this devastation is the vindication of God's insulted honour: ye shall know that I am Yahweh (a very common phrase in Ezekiel), the just and mighty Yahweh, in comparison with the impotent idols. But that honour will be more completely vindicated by the penitence and conversion of s... [ Continue Reading ]
The prospect of the awful destruction of the idolaters by sword, famine, and pestilence, moves Ezekiel to give vent to his feelings in gestures of triumphant scorn; far from pitying his sinful fellow-countrymen in the hour of their sore distress, rather does he rejoice in Yahweh's victory over them.... [ Continue Reading ]