Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 7:11
None — They shall be utterly wasted for their sins. Wailing — The living shall not bewail their dead friends, because they shall judge the dead in a better case than the living.
None — They shall be utterly wasted for their sins. Wailing — The living shall not bewail their dead friends, because they shall judge the dead in a better case than the living.
Verse Ezekiel 7:11. _VIOLENCE IS RISEN, UP INTO A ROD OF WICKEDNESS_] The prophet continues his metaphor: "Pride has budded." - And what has it brought forth? _Violence_ and _iniquity_. To meet these...
Ezekiel 7:1. This chapter closes the first great message of Ezekiel. This great judgment message is written in beautiful language, which, in the Authorized Version, is marred by numerous incorrect ren...
That dreadful day, which would extinguish their political existence, would no less bring to an end all their social and commercial life. The proud blossoms of Judah would soon be smitten and withered....
A ROD OF WICKEDNESS: i.e.. rod to punish the wickedness. Genitive of Relation. App-17. WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew rasha. App-44. neither shall there be wailing for them. Some codices, with four...
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...
"Violence" must be that in Israel, not that of the enemy. This violence has risen up so as to be, or to bring down a rod of wickedness, i.e. a rod due to wickedness or in chastisement of it (Ezekiel 7...
B. The Calamity Described 7:10-27 In describing Judah's coming day of visitation Ezekiel stresses four points (1) the social disruption (Ezekiel 7:10-13); (2) the military dismay (Ezekiel 7:14-18); (3...
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them. VIOLENCE IS RISEN UP INTO A ROD OF...
7:11 Violence (b-1) As ver. 23; Zephaniah 1:9 . wealth, (c-22) A play on words here. them. (d-31) Or 'neither shall there be wailing for them.'...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL This is a final message of doom upon the whole land (Ezekiel 7:2). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close at hand...
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 7 THE *DISASTERS WILL HAPPEN SOON – EZEKIEL 7:1-13 v1...
NEITHER SHALL THERE BE WAILING FOR THEM. — The word for _wailing_ is another of those words occurring only in this passage which have been variously understood. It is now generally taken for that whic...
הֶ חָמָ֥ס ׀ קָ֖ם לְ מַטֵּה ־רֶ֑שַׁע לֹא
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...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on, e...
(g) Violence hath risen into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them. (g) This cruel enemy will be a...
_Iniquity. What other fruit could be expected from wickedness? It draws on chastisement. --- Noise, or grandees. None will repent, and therefore none shall escape, from the highest to the lowest._...
The same alarm is here given under another figure, to rouse Israel. The evil come, and the morning arrived, when sentence is to be carried into execution: these are strong intimations to work upon the...
This is an explanation of the words, _that pride had budded: _now he adds violence to pride, which is its fruit: for contempt of God always begets cruelty and savagery, and rapine, and all injustice....
Finally (chap. 7), the whole land of Israel is under the sentence of God, "the four corners of the land." Those who escape the general judgment mourn alone upon the mountains, having forsaken all in d...
VIOLENCE IS RISEN UP INTO A ROD OF WICKEDNESS,.... Some understand this of the Chaldeans, who came with great violence against the Jews, and were a rod in the hand of the Lord, to scourge them for the...
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them [shall remain], nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither [shall there be] wailing for them. Ver. 11. _Violence is risen up int...
_Behold the day_ Which has lingered so long! it is come at last. _The morning is gone forth_ The day of destruction is already begun. _The rod hath blossomed_ As the same word which signifies a _tribe...
Violence, namely, that of the conquering Chaldeans, IS RISEN UP INTO A ROD OF WICKEDNESS, namely, to carry out the punishment upon the wicked; NONE OF THEM SHALL REMAIN, the inhabitants being either s...
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
THEIR MULTITUDE: Or, their tumultuous persons. _Heb._ tumult...
1-15 The abruptness of this prophecy, and the many repetitions, show that the prophet was deeply affected by the prospect of these calamities. Such will the destruction of sinners be; for none can av...
VIOLENCE; with fierceness, which is their natural temper, a bitter and hasty nation, HABAKKUK 1:6; with eagerness and impetuous vigour executing, and with injustice and violence oppressing all. IS RIS...
Ezekiel 7:11 Violence H2555 up H6965 (H8804) rod H4294 wickedness H7562 multitude H1995 None H1991 wailing H5089...
“Behold the day, behold it comes. Your doom is gone forth. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness, none of them will remain, nor of their abundance (mul...
CONTENTS: Miserable end of Judah because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The ruin of sinners comes slowly but surely, but when it comes, it will be total. In the heaviest judgments God...
Ezekiel 7:2. _An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land._ The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they sh...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been already f...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the same group...
CHAPTER 7. LAMENTATION OVER THE GUILT AND FALL OF ISRAEL. THIS chapter does not contain anything properly new. It simply describes the mournful feelings and reflections which the preceding revelation...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel (Ezekiel 7:1-2); Now, the other was to the mountains, now to the land. the...
Amos 3:10; Amos 6:3; Ezekiel 24:16; Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 5:4;...