Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ezekiel 6:2
Son of man See on ch. Ezekiel 2:1.
mountains of Israel i.e. the mountain-land of Israel, but with special reference to the mountains as the seats of idolatrous worship.
Son of man See on ch. Ezekiel 2:1.
mountains of Israel i.e. the mountain-land of Israel, but with special reference to the mountains as the seats of idolatrous worship.
Verse Ezekiel 6:2. _SET THY FACE TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL_] This is a new prophecy, and was most probably given after the _four hundred_ _and thirty_ days of his lying on his left and right sid...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. THE MOUNTAINS. Specially defiled by the high places. Compare Ezekiel 6:13....
OF ISRAEL— "Israel being carried captive, Judah is called Israel; and perhaps possessed a great part of the country." Secker....
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,...
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, SET THY FACE TOWARD ... MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL - i:e., of Palestine in general. The mountains are addressed by perso...
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...
TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL. — It is not uncommon to address prophetic utterances to inanimate objects as a poetic way of representing the people. (Comp. Ezekiel 36:1; Micah 6:2, &c.) The mountains...
בֶּן ־אָדָ֕ם שִׂ֥ים פָּנֶ֖יךָ אֶל ־הָרֵ֣י יִש
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...
_Mountains, where idols were chiefly adored. Here their votaries find death. (Worthington) --- Israel, including all God's people, as the sacred writers make no distinction (Calmet) after the destruct...
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...
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,...
SON OF MAN, SET THY FACE TOWARDS THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL,.... Or cities of Israel, the inhabitants of them; not the ten tribes, for they had been carried captive long before this time, even in the tim...
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, Ver. 2. _Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel,_] _i.e., _ The Jews, who are haughty, and hard as mountains,...
_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...
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, in a prophecy of condemnation, AND PROPHESY AGAINST THEM,...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND AND THE SLAUGHTER OF THE IDOLATERS...
SON OF MAN; see EZEKIEL 2:1; put thyself towards the mountains, in a posture of one who is going to speak, look toward them; hereby (as Isaiah did, ISA 12) upbraiding the deafness of the Jews, whom he...
Ezekiel 6:2 Son H1121 man H120 set H7760 (H8798) face H6440 mountains H2022 Israel H3478 prophesy H5012 ...
‘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 6:2 SET YOUR FACE. Another favorite phrase of Ezekiel, expressing determination. The hills and MOUNTAINS that Ezekiel addresses were linked to improper worship (see...
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 6:1...
The mountains — The inhabitants of the mountains, who were secure in their fastnesses....