Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 19:7
He knew — By taking them, he came to know their places, which are here called, what he made them, desolate. Roaring — By the perpetual violent threats of this cruel king.
He knew — By taking them, he came to know their places, which are here called, what he made them, desolate. Roaring — By the perpetual violent threats of this cruel king.
CHAINS - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note. Ezekiel 19:5 ANOTHER - Jehoiachin who soon showed himself no less unworthy than J
EZEKIEL 19. DIRGE OVER THE KINGS. From a chapter which has the ring almost of dogmatic theology, we pass to one of pure elegiac poetry, in which Ezekiel deals a death-blow to the vain hopes reposed in...
KNEW THEIR DESOLATE PALACES. Aramaean and Septuagint read "injured or defiled his widows". KNEW. knew carnally. See 2 Chronicles 36:8....
Jehoiachin carried captive to Babylon The second young lion is Jehoiachin. The intermediate prince Jehoiakim could not be included in an elegy, because he died in peace. It is the princes of Israel w...
AND HE KNEW THEIR DESOLATE PALACES— _And he destroyed their palaces._ Houbigant, with the Chaldee and LXX....
II. BITTER DIRGES 19:1-14 There is a time for a preacher to rebuke his audience; there is also a time for him to weep with them and for them. In chapter 19 Ezekiel becomes a sympathetic mourner. God i...
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. HE KNEW THEIR DESOLATE PALACES - i:e., claimed a...
19:7 knew (b-3) Some read, 'he broke down.' palaces, (c-6) Or 'widows.' contained, (d-22) Lit. 'its fulness.'...
A LAMENT FOR THE ROYAL HOUSE OF JUDAH This chapter is a poem in which the measure used for a dirge or elegy is more or less traceable throughout. It describes first a lioness, two of whose whelps are...
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 19 * This chapter contains a sad song. It describes events...
KNEW THEIR DESOLATE PALACES. — This verse continues to describe the abominations of Jehoiachin’s ways. The word “desolate palaces,” although defended by some authorities, should be rendered, as in the...
וַ יֵּ֨דַע֙ אַלְמְנֹותָ֔יו וְ עָרֵיהֶ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֑יב...
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 last section in the prophet's revelation of the righteousness of reprobation consists of his lament over the fallen princes of Judah. He first referred to Jehoahaz, the son and successor of Josiah...
The Prophet is adverting to the Babylonish captivity, as he had before to that of Egypt, and from both raiseth a subject of lamentation. Reader! it is a very solemn consideration to the people of God,...
He again confirms what he said of the cruelty of King Jehoiakim: but the phrase is mixed, since he retains but a part of the simile, and then speaks without a figure of palaces and cities. Although in...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 18 AND 19. Chapter 18 contains an important principle of the dealings of God, unfolded at that period. God would judge the individual according to his own con...
AND HE KNEW THEIR DESOLATE PALACES,.... He took notice of the palaces or seats of the richest men of the nation, and pillaged them of their treasure and wealth, and so they became desolate: it may be...
And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. Ver. 7. _And he knew their desolate places._] He h...
_When she saw that she had waited_ This seems to signify that the Jews waited some time before they thought of setting another king over them, hoping, probably, that the king of Egypt would restore un...
And he knew their desolate palaces, or, "he defiled their widows," taking advantage of their helplessness, AND HE LAID WASTE THEIR CITIES, so that his tyrannical behavior ruined his own country; AND T...
OVER THE KINGS...
DESOLATE: Or, their widows...
1-9 Ezekiel is to compare the kingdom of Judah to a lioness. He must compare the kings of Judah to a lion's whelps; they were cruel and oppressive to their own subjects. The righteousness of God is t...
He, JEHOIAKIM, knew their desolate palaces, on view; not only heard of them, but setting on them violently, and taking them, he came to know their palaces, which are here called, what he made them, de...
Ezekiel 19:7 knew H3045 (H8799) places H490 waste H2717 (H8689) cities H5892 land H776 fullness H4393 desolated...
“Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, Then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion. And he...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for princes of Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: God's ministers who have foretold His judgments upon sinners should bitterly lament the destruction of sinners when...
Ezekiel 19:2. _Thy mother was a lioness she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion._ These words are cited from Jacob's testamentary benedictions, in which Judah is called a lion's whelp...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 19:1 Ezekiel presents two further political allegories (vv. Ezekiel 19:1 and vv. Ezekiel 19:
LAMENTATION FOR THE MISERABLE FATE AWAITING THE PRINORS AND PEOPLE OF ISRAEL (Chap. 19) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 19:1. The prophet foresees the capture and exile of the Princes into Egypt and Babyl...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 19:1 The two sections of this chapter—Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:10 -are respectively two parables of the same type as that of...
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation (Ezekiel 19:1) So this is a lamentation. Notice at the beginning he says a lamentation and then at the end he said, "This is a lamentation and shall be a lamentat...
Amos 6:8; Ezekiel 12:19; Ezekiel 22:25; Ezekiel 30:12; Micah 1:2;...