I will speak — There has been and shall be a succession of God's ministers, by whom he will speak, to the end of the world. Even in the worst times, God left not himself without witness, but raised up men that spoke for him, and spoke from him.
Verse Ezekiel 12:25. _IN YOUR DAYS - WILL I SAY THE WORD, AND WILL PERFORM IT_] Even these mockers shall _live_ to see and feel this desolation. This is more particularly intimated in the following ve...
As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold. Ezekiel 12:22 THE LAND OF ISRAEL - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was...
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...
DISREGARD OF THE TRUE PROPHETS. One reason for ignoring the stern message of Ezekiel is suggested by the popular saying that the days keep stretching out but the doom is never fulfilled, so that there...
PROLONGED: i.e. delayed, or deferred. WITH THE LORD. [isj Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
Warning against despising of prophecy The prophet felt that such threats as those just uttered (Ezekiel 12:1) were neglected and little thought of. People disposed of such prophecies by saying that t...
_for I_am _the Lord_ Rather: FOR I THE LORD WILL SPEAK. Lit. for I the Lord will speak what word I shall speak, and it shall come to pass. The sense is given by A.V. The word which the Lord speaks to...
II. TWO POPULAR SAYINGS CORRECTED 12:21-28 TRANSLATION (21) And the word OF the LORD came unto me, saying, (22) Son of man, what is this proverb that your people have concerning the land of Israel,...
For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, sai...
§ 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,...
ON PROPHECY, TRUE AND FALSE After rebuking certain prevalent forms of contempt for prophecy (Ezekiel 12:21), Ezekiel reproves the false prophets (Ezekiel 13:1) and false prophetesses (Ezekiel 13:17) o...
PROLONGED] RV 'deferred,' and so in Ezekiel 12:28. _(B) FALSE PROPHETS REPROVED (EZEKIEL 13:1)_ False prophecy accompanied true prophecy in Israel like its shadow. While the true prophets spoke in Go...
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
(21-28) These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord (Ezekiel 12:21), both designed to meet the objection that warning prophecies had been uttered now for a long time, and as they had not...
כִּ֣י ׀ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֲדַבֵּר֙ אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר...
PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed under the ge...
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...
Here is a third sermon of the Prophet; and it is to the same purport as the former. It should seem, that it was become almost proverbial, if judgments did not immediately follow the commission of sin,...
_THE LORD IS NOT SLACK_ ‘I am the Lord; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred.’ Ezekiel 12:25 (R.V.) I. IN VARIOUS WAYS THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL...
He confirms the last verse. there is some obscurity in the context of the words, but as to the general sense, the Prophet wishes to teach simply that what even God had spoken should be shortly accompl...
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...
FOR I [AM] THE LORD: I WILL SPEAK,.... A sovereign Being, immutable and eternal; who will speak by his prophets what is his mind and will shall be done: AND THE WORD THAT I SHALL SPEAK SHALL COME TO...
For I [am] the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, sa...
_Son of man, what is that proverb?_ The saying become proverbial. _The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth_ Words of the same import with those that occur Ezekiel 12:27, and Ezekiel 11:3. Bot...
THE SIGN OF BREAD AND WATER...
For I am the Lord; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass, it shall be no more prolonged, literally, "For I, Jehovah, will speak that which I will speak, and it shall come to...
21-28 From that forbearance of God, which should have led them to repent, the Jews hardened themselves in sin. It will not serve for an excuse in speaking evil, to plead that it is a common saying. Th...
I can discover the vanity of flattering prophets, and will do it, by making good what my true prophets have foretold. No length of time shall make me forget it, no pretences of self-flattering prophet...
Ezekiel 12:25 LORD H3068 speak H1696 (H8762) word H1697 speak H1696 (H8762) pass H6213 (H8735) postponed...
“For there will no more be any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word I speak will be performed. It will not be deferred any long...
FOR IN It must constantly be remembered that though the prophet was in Babylonia he prophesies as if in the land, and during the eleven years' interval between the first and final deportation. (_ Se...
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...
_It shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God._ CRITICAL MOMENTS Do not enter a fool’s paradise; do not enter upon...
_The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth._ PROPHECY A LIVING FORCE Right in the midst of the history of Israel, when Divine purposes of the highest moral and spiritual importance were being...
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 12:21 Apparently the delay in the prophecy’s fulfillment allowed time for counter-prophecies to be given. These false statements are answered here. ⇐
(3.) THE FOOLISH PROVERB (Ezekiel 12:21) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The hearts of the Jerusalem people would evade any fair application of the ominous action of Ezekiel, and he is incited to aim a blow at the...
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...
Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 12:1; Ezekiel 12:2; Ezekiel 12:28; Ezekiel 6:10;...