The people — Thy fellow captives. And of the land — Those that dwell in the countries round about Jerusalem. Her land — Jerusalem's land, so called because it was the head city thereof. Desolate — Because it shortly shall be laid waste, emptied of inhabitants, wealth and plenty. Violence — Injustice, oppression and tyranny of the Jews toward one another.
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND - Chaldaea. OF THE INHABITANTS - In respect to “the inhabitants.” DESOLATE FROM, ALL THAT IS THEREIN - i. e., stripped of all its inhabitants and of all its wealth. At one and...
CHAPTER S 12-19 Signs, Messages, and Parables _ 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1) _ 2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21) 3. The message against false prophets and prop...
THE STRAITS OF THE SIEGE. In another message whose symbols resemble those of Ezekiel 4:10 f., Ezekiel 4:16 f., he seeks to bring home to them the certain and horrible privations of the siege....
OF THE INHABITANTS. to the inhabitants. THE LAND, &c.. concerning the land, &c. Hebrew admath. See note on Ezekiel 11:17. HER. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "their". ALL. The 1...
A new symbol of the terror and violence and desolation about to come upon the land....
_Jerusalem_and _of the land_ Rather: Jerusalem IN (lit. upon) the land. _because of the violence_ The punishment of violence is violence. The internal wrong and oppression shall be avenged by a crush...
B. The Suffering of Jerusalem's Inhabitants 12:17-20 TRANSLATION (17) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling...
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astoni...
§ 4. FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND APPROACHING PUNISHMENT (EZEKIEL 12-19) This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September,...
WILL YE POLLUTE] RV 'ye have profaned.' HANDFULS OF BARLEY, etc.] The fees received by the false prophetesses. DIE and LIVE] see on Ezekiel 3:18. This whole passage should be read in the light of the...
SYMBOLS OF EXILE, FLIGHT, AND FAMINE Ezekiel's audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representation...
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 12 *PROPHECY OF THE *EXILE – EZEKIEL 12:1-20 V1 Th
UNTO THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, — _i.e._, of the land of Chaldæa: Ezekiel’s fellow-captives. All these prophecies, though concerning Jerusalem and its people, were immediately addressed to the exiles, an...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל ־עַ֣ם הָ אָ֡רֶץ כֹּֽה
The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the comm...
We have here another sermon of the Prophet; which though short is solemn, and full of significance. The whole nation of Israel is under divine correction. The portion already carried away into Babylon...
Chapter 12 announces the fight and the capture of Zedekiah, who would be carried to Babylon though he would. not see it. All the force of Judah would be dispersed, and the land laid desolate; a small...
AND SAY UNTO THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND,.... Of Chaldea, where the prophet now was; not the natives of the land, but the Israelites, who were captives in it; who were ready to murmur and repine at their o...
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, [and] of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with aston...
_Moreover_, &c. As he was a sign to them in digging through the wall and carrying out his stuff, so he must now be a sign to them in another way. _Eat thy bread with quaking_, &c. Show all the signs o...
THE SIGN OF BREAD AND WATER...
and say unto the people of the land, the Jews among the captives of Chaldea, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM AND OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL, of all the people who were still left in...
ALL THAT IS THEREIN: _ Heb._ the fullness thereof...
17-20 The prophet must eat and drink in care and fear, with trembling, that he might express the condition of those in Jerusalem during the siege. When ministers speak of the ruin coming upon sinners,...
Explain the meaning of this unusual and uncomfortable manner of eating and drinking UNTO THE PEOPLE; the common sort of people, distinguished from rulers, of the land of Chaldea, in which the Jews wer...
Ezekiel 12:19 say H559 (H8804) people H5971 land H127 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 inhabitants...
“And say to the people of the land, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel. They will eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with di...
CONTENTS: Vision of the prophet as a sign. Full captivity near at hand. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Sinners often try to think their works are not evil because sentence upon them is not ex...
Ezekiel 12:3. _Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing._ Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the pr...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:1 The predictions of exile in this chapter come during a time when the exile has already begun. Thus, the chapter probably relates to the uncertain decade between 597 B.C. ...
(2.) THE SYMBOL FROM BREAD AND WATER (Ezekiel 12:17) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet is commanded to take his ordinary meals as a man under great apprehensions. It is not, as in chap. Ezekiel 4:16, that...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 12:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in this chapte...
CHAPTER 12. THE VISION OF EZEKIEL'S TYPICAL REMOVING AS AN EXILE, AND ACCOMPANYING INSTRUCTIONS. Ezekiel 12:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest i...
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for...
1 Corinthians 10:26; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Kings 17:10; Ezekiel 36:3;...