Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 6:12
Far off — Either by flight, or captivity. Shall fall — Who dwell near to Jerusalem, or would retire to it, when the Babylonians approach.
Far off — Either by flight, or captivity. Shall fall — Who dwell near to Jerusalem, or would retire to it, when the Babylonians approach.
The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment. Ezekiel 6:11 SMITE ... STAMP - Well-known modes of expressing grief. Ezekiel 6:13 S...
Ezekiel 6:1. The mountains of Israel are mentioned first, because they were the places where the people practiced idolatry; they were the high places so often mentioned in the historical books. (Read...
The prospect of the awful destruction of the idolaters by sword, famine, and pestilence, moves Ezekiel to give vent to his feelings in gestures of triumphant scorn; far from pitying his sinful fellow-...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
Renewal of the threat of destruction because of idolatry...
_and is besieged_ AND HE THAT IS BESIEGED. In LXX. the previous "he that remaineth" is wanting. With this omission "he that is besieged" might stand, cf. ch. Ezekiel 7:15, "he that is in the city, fam...
C. A Distressing Lamentation 6:11-14 TRANSLATION (11) Thus says the Lord GOD: Clap your hand and stamp your foot, and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, with swor...
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them....
HE THAT IS FAR OFF, etc.] The judgment would fall on idolatrous Israelites not only in Jerusalem, but wherever they might be....
A PROPHECY AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN LAND OF ISRAEL The coming judgment is here announced to the land of Israel, which is identified with the people. Ezekiel 6:8, following up the hint in Ezekiel 5:3, spe...
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 6 GOD WILL BREAK THE *ALTARS AND REMOVE THE FALSE GODS – EZE...
THAT IS FAR OFF... THAT IS NEAR. — That is, all, wherever they may be, shall be reached and overwhelmed by the coming judgments; yet not in such wise that we are to think of one kind of judgment as es...
הָ רָחֹ֞וק בַּ † דֶּ֣בֶר יָמ֗וּת וְ...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
These signs were followed by denunciations growing naturally out of what they had taught. In general terms, the prophet first foretold the coming judgment of the sword against the whole land, and the...
It should seem, from what is here said, that the Prophet was to enforce the truths he had to deliver, by action of body as well as expression of mind. Indeed, so solemn a subject might well be suppose...
Now the Prophet explains himself how the Israelites were to be destroyed by famine, the sword, and pestilence, namely, _those who shall be far off shall die by pestilence; _that is, after they think t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
HE THAT IS FAR OFF SHALL DIE OF THE PESTILENCE,.... That flies from the enemy into the wilderness, or into other countries, thinking himself safe there, the plague shall seize him, and he shall die of...
He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. V...
_Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot_ Join to thy words the gestures which are proper to express grief and concern at the wickedness of thy people, and for their calamities that will ensue. _...
THE FATE OF THOSE WHO REMAIN...
He that is far off, out of time enemies' reach, SHALL DIE OF THE PESTILENCE, being unable to escape the avenging army of the Lord; AND HE THAT IS NEAR, within reach of the invaders, SHALL FALL BY THE...
11-14 It is our duty to be affected, not only with our own sins and sufferings, but to look with compassion upon the miseries wicked people bring upon themselves. Sin is a desolating thing; therefore,...
FAR OFF; either by his early and voluntary flight from his own country; or, he that is carried away captive, and sent by the enemy into a far country. PESTILENCE; the arrow I will shoot after them. HE...
Ezekiel 6:12 off H7350 die H4191 (H8799) pestilence H1698 near H7138 fall H5307 (H8799) sword H2719 remains...
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Smite with your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, ‘Alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel', for they will fall by the sword, by the famine...
CONTENTS: Message against the mountains of Israel. Remnant to be spared. Desolations upon the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: If men do not, as they ought, destroy idolatry, God will fir...
Ezekiel 6:3. _I will destroy your high places,_ all the necessaries of idolatry. במות _bomoth,_ Βουνοι, thence Βωμοι. _Your high altars._ In Montfaucon's Antiquities we have various views of heathen a...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and “land” ...
4. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF ISRAEL’S CONDUCT (Chap. 6) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_The judgment on places of idolatry and the worshippers_ (Ezekiel 6:1). After asserting, in Ezekiel 6:1,...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 6:2, EZEKIEL 6:3 SET THY FACE TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, in...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Ezekiel the sixth chapter. Ezekiel here addresses himself to the mountains of Israel. The people of Israel had built places of worship on the tops of the mountains, but...
Amos 5:16; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 21:14; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 9:4;...