Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 11:24
The spirit — The same spirit which carried him to Jerusalem, now brings him back to Chaldea. Went up — Was at an end.
The spirit — The same spirit which carried him to Jerusalem, now brings him back to Chaldea. Went up — Was at an end.
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...
A GLIMMER OF HOPE. The people who, at the first deportation (597 B.C.), were allowed to remain in the land, clearly thought themselves superior to those who, like Ezekiel, had been taken to Babylon fa...
SO THE VISION—WENT UP FROM ME— The prophet recovered from his ecstasy, and related all that which we have considered from the beginning of the 8th chapter to this place. REFLECTIONS.—1st, The abomina...
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...
C. The Conclusion of the Vision 11:22-25 TRANSLATION (22) Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. (23) And the glory of...
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. THE SPIRIT ... BROUGHT ME IN...
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:...
וְ ר֣וּחַ נְשָׂאַ֗תְנִי וַ תְּבִיאֵ֤נִי כַשְׂדִּ֨ימָה֙...
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...
What a peculiar situation of divine favor Ezekiel was in, when thus sent by the Lord on his ministry. When he had finished his vision at Jerusalem, he is brought back by vision again to the place from...
The Prophet here confirms what he had said at the beginning, viz., that this vision was divinely presented and was not an empty and deceptive specter. This prophecy was difficult of belief, so that al...
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...
AFTERWARDS THE SPIRIT TOOK ME UP,.... From the east gate of the temple, whither he had brought him; when he had been shown, and everything had been told him, necessary for the reproof of the Jews in J...
Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. Ver. 24. _By the Spirit of God...
_The spirit took me, and brought me in vision into Chaldea _ That is, took away from before my eyes the image of Jerusalem and the temple, &c., and presented nothing to my mind but what was the real m...
Afterwards the spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God, under whose influence the entire happening was engineered, INTO CHALDEA, TO THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY. SO THE VISION THAT...
THE PROMISE TO SAVE A REMNANT...
22-25 Here is the departure of God's presence from the city and temple. It was from the Mount of Olives that the vision went up, typifying the ascension of Christ to heaven from that very mountain. Th...
After all this, the same Spirit of God which carried him to Jerusalem, and to the temple, now brings him back in like manner to his captive brethren in Chaldea; not corporally, but in an ecstasy or ra...
Ezekiel 11:24 Spirit H7307 up H5375 (H8804) brought H935 (H8686) vision H4758 Spirit H7307 God H430 Chaldea...
‘And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God to Chaldea, to those of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. Then I spoke to those of the captiv...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:22 The vision concludes on a tragic note. God leaves his city, which means divine absence and thus death for the people. The MOUNTAIN... ON THE EAST is the Mount of Olives....
(5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jeru...
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...
2 Corinthians 12:3; 2 Kings 2:16; Acts 10:16; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 11: