Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 12:2
Eyes to see — They have capacity, if they would, to understand, but they will not understand, what thou speakest.
Eyes to see — They have capacity, if they would, to understand, but they will not understand, what thou speakest.
Verse Ezekiel 12:2. _WHICH HAVE EYES TO SEE, AND SEE NOT_] It is not want of _grace_ that brings them to destruction. _They have eyes to see_, but they will not _use_ them. No man is lost because he h...
Compare Deuteronomy 1:26; margin reference; Romans 10:21. The repetition of such words from age to age, shows that the prophet’s words are intended to reach beyond the generation in which he lived....
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...
EZEKIEL 12. EXILE FORESHADOWED. Ezekiel 12:1. Flight from the Beleaguered City. Ezekiel's message of doom has surely been made plain enough, but the rebellious house will not listen; for one thing, th...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. REBELLIOUS. perverse. See note on Ezekiel 2:3....
The people of Israel among whom the prophet dwells is a rebellious house (ch. Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 2:6-8; Ezekiel 3:26-27). His former signs meet with no belief from them. They have eyes but see not:...
CHAPTER SEVEN SYMBOLS AND SERMONS 12:1-14:23 This section does not begin with a chronological note, but in all likelihood the symbolic actions and oracles recorded here date from the same time frame...
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, A REBELLIOUS HOUSE, WHICH HAVE EYES TO SEE, AND SEE NOT ... EARS TO HEAR, AND HEAR NOT - fulfilling the prophecy of , "Yet the Lord hath not given yo...
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...
The story of the vision seems to have produced no impression....
§ 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,...
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
A REBELLIOUS HOUSE. — Comp. Deuteronomy 1:26; Romans 10:21. The _seeing not_ and _hearing not_ is that perverse refusing to see and to hear so often spoken of in Scripture. (See Deuteronomy 29:4;...
בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם בְּ תֹ֥וךְ בֵּית ־הַ מֶּ֖רִי
THE END OF THE MONARCHY Ezekiel 12:1; Ezekiel 17:1; Ezekiel 19:1 IN spite of the interest excited by Ezekiel's prophetic appearances, the exiles still received his prediction of the fall of Jerusalem...
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...
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see (a) not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house. (a) That is, they receive...
It is very proper for the Reader to remark what the Lord so often repeats to his servant the Prophet concerning his people, that they are a rebellious house. For this consideration will help the Reade...
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...
SON OF MAN, THOU DWELLEST IN THE MIDST OF A REBELLIOUS HOUSE,.... The captives in Babylon, who murmured at their present condition and circumstances, and looked upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be...
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they [are] a rebellious house. Ver. 2. _A rebellious house...
_The word of the Lord also came_, &c. This is supposed to have happened in the sixth year of Zedekiah, and five years before the siege of Jerusalem: and the prophecies contained in the following Chapt...
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, literally, "in the midst of a house of rebelliousness art thou living," WHICH HAVE EYES TO SEE AND SEE NOT; THEY HAVE EARS TO HEAR AND HEA...
THE SIGN OF THE KINGS DEPARTUE...
1-16 By the preparation for removal, and his breaking through the wall of his house at evening, as one desirous to escape from the enemy, the prophet signified the conduct and fate of Zedekiah. When G...
THOU DWELLEST; the prophet knowing the captivity would be long, had settled his habitation, and probably found some favour with the enemy, that he might be accommodated for his abode. The Jews who gav...
Ezekiel 12:2 Son H1121 man H120 dwell H3427 (H8802) midst H8432 rebellious H4805 house H1004 eyes H5869 see...
EZEKIEL'S DEPICTION OF THE COMING GREAT ESCAPE THAT WILL FAIL. ‘The word of Yahweh also came to me saying, “Son of man, you dwell among the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and do not see, who...
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...
_Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and see not._ THE DISUSE OF SPIRITUAL FACULTIES Eyes and ears are for many reasons the most important and valuabl...
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. ...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:2 On Ezekiel’s use of the phrase REBELLIOUS HOUSE (also vv. Ezekiel 12:9,...
2. FULLER DETAILS RELATING TO THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PUNISHMENT (Chaps. 12–19) Intercourse with their countrymen in Jerusalem deeply affected the views and hopes of the exiled Jews, as the f...
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...
2 Corinthians 3:14; 2 Corinthians 4:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:10;...