Sinfully, and forgetting God, you would have escaped the sword of the Babylonians, and attempted it by an idolatrous compliance: for this very cause will I send that sword upon you, and it shall slay your wives, children, and fellow citizens.
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...
YE HAVE FEARED, &c. Compare Jeremiah 42:16. I WILL BRING. SWORD, &c. See note on Ezekiel 5:17. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
_have feared_ YE FEAR. The language of the ruling class, in spite of its recklessness (Ezekiel 11:3), betrays the consciousness of the risks they incur; and their fears shall be more than verified....
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...
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. YE HAVE FEARED THE SWORD. The Chaldean sword, to escape which ye abandoned your God, shall be brought on you by God...
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...
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:...
חֶ֖רֶב יְרֵאתֶ֑ם וְ חֶ֨רֶב֙ אָבִ֣יא עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם...
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
A NEW HEART PROMISED Ezekiel 11:5-25 The Spirit of God led the prophet to the East Gate of the Temple, where the Shekinah had settled, Ezekiel 10:19. There He uttered the divine verdict on the priest...
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...
The same Almighty Spirit, which lifted the Prophet up, here fell upon him, that he might not fall down. And I pray the Reader to observe, the gracious effects which follow, in the Lord's promises, in...
We ought to join these verses together, because the Prophet treats the same thing in many words. First _he denounces that they should perish by the sword since they feared the sword _By these words he...
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...
YE HAVE FEARED THE SWORD,.... Of the Chaldeans; and therefore they sent to the Egyptians for help. The Targum is, "ye have been afraid of them that kill with the sword;'' and not afraid of the Lord;...
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 8. _Ye have feared the sword._] And yet they made as if they feared nothing; they doubted not but to die in their...
_Ye have feared the sword_ Of the Chaldeans; and have, to avoid it, courted them, and left my worship to follow their idolatrous rites: but this very sword will I bring upon you. _And I will deliver y...
Ye have feared the sword, for they had refused to follow the advice of Jeremiah to give themselves up to the Babylonians, since they were afraid of being put to death by them; AND I WILL BRING A SWORD...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE RULERS...
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...
Ezekiel 11:8 feared H3372 (H8804) sword H2719 bring H935 (H8686) sword H2719 says H5002 (H8803) Lord...
“You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the flesh, and...
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 11:7 The focus here is on the distinction between the court officials and the people who have been killed. ⇐...
(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...
1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 24:17;...