Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 6:3
Rivers — To those who dwell by river sides, or in the valleys. High places — The places of your idolatrous worship.
Rivers — To those who dwell by river sides, or in the valleys. High places — The places of your idolatrous worship.
RIVERS - Or, “ravines,” which were, like the mountains, favorite seats of idol-rites 2 Kings 23:10....
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...
EZEKIEL 6. THE DOOM OF THE SINFUL MOUNTAINS. Ezekiel 6:1. Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced, or rather the...
THE LORD GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on Ezekiel 2:4. RIVERS: OR, RAVINES. Compare Ezekiel 36:4, s. Hebrew aphikim. See note on "channels", 2 Samuel 22:16. BEHOLD, Figure of speech _Asteriemo...
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...
_to the rivers_ the RAVINES; the gorges where there were streams and thick trees, and where idolatrous worship was practised (ch. Ezekiel 35:8; Ezekiel 36:4; Ezekiel 36:6), cf....
TO THE MOUNTAINS, &C.— Every part of the country had been defiled with idolatry. _The altars built_ for idol worship were generally placed upon mountains and hills: the shady valleys and river-sides w...
II. DISOBEDIENCE AND DESOLATION 6:1-14 In his second discourse Ezekiel zeroes in on the places of idolatrous worship which were located in the mountains and valleys of Judah. These pagan sanctuaries,...
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword up...
6:3 water-courses (a-27) Or 'ravines.'...
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...
The Guilt (or Trespass) Offering. Two cases are mentioned in which it is proper to bring a guilt offering. The first (Leviticus 5:15) is that of a person who occasions loss to the sanctuary by either...
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...
TO THE RIVERS, AND TO THE VALLEYS. — These words stand to each other in the same relation as “mountains and hills,” that is, they are specifications of the same general character. The word frequently...
וְ אָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ הָרֵי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל שִׁמְע֖וּ דְּבַר...
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...
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the (a) mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a swo...
By the mountains of Israel, is meant the higher order of the people of Israel; such as exalted themselves above their fellows, and perhaps prided themselves in being exempt from popular fear and appre...
Now a clearer expression follows in the third verse: _Thou shalt say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord. _Here an audience is required of the mountains which they could not give, but 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,...
AND SAY, YE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD,.... Since the people of the Jews would not hear the word of the Lord, the mountains are called upon to hear it; unless the inhabitants o...
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword u...
_Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel_ Turn thy face to that part where Judea is situated. Judea was a hilly country; therefore that whole land is expressed here and elsewhere by _the mountains...
and say, Ye mountains of Israel, the special places of idolatrous cults, here representing the entire country formerly occupied by the Lord's people, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD, of the sovereign Ru...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
YE MOUNTAINS; ye that dwell in the mountains, ye secure, fearless, and rude mountaineers, hear and consider what God speaks against you, for thus saith the Lord God to you, on mountains and hills of I...
Ezekiel 6:3 say H559 (H8804) mountains H2022 Israel H3478 hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 Lord H136 GOD...
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, Thus s...
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...
_I, even I, will bring a sword upon you._ THE CHARACTER OF GOD Taking Chapter s 6 and 7 as revealing the character of God, in how awful a light is the Divine Being made to appear! How infinite, for e...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:1 These two extended oracles are both addressed to “geography”: the “mountains” (Ezekiel 6:2) and “land” ...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 6:3 The treaty curses of Leviticus 26:1 are the background for this verse. This is especially clear in the threat to BRING A SWORD UPON YOU (also...
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...
Ezekiel 13:17; Ezekiel 19:9; Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 25:2