Fruitlessness of the defence
14. Preparations for the defence are made but there is no courage to face the enemy, for the wrath of God upon them predetermines their defeat.
even to make all ready Rather: and have made (inf. abs.).
Verse Ezekiel 7:14. _THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET_] Vain are all the efforts you make to collect and arm the people, and stand on your own defence; for all shall be dispirited, and none _go to the batt...
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....
THEY HAVE BLOWN. Some codices, with Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "Blow ye"....
2._ The military dismay (7:14-18_) TRANSLATION (14) They have blown the trumpet and all is made ready, but none is going to the battle; for My wrath is against all its multitude. (15) The sword is wi...
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET - rather, 'Blow the trumpet,' or, 'Let...
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...
NONE GOETH TO THE BATTLE. — The last thought is followed up here. The people are so enfeebled by their sins as to have no power against the enemy. Consequently (Ezekiel 7:15) they shall all perish, di...
תָּקְע֤וּ בַ † תָּקֹ֨ועַ֙ וְ הָכִ֣ין הַ...
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...
(o) They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all its multitude. (o) The Israelites made a brag, but their hearts failed them....
CHAPTER VII. _ Ready. He describes the vain attempts of the Jews to make resistance._...
I include the whole under one reading for the sake of shortness. In these verses is contained, the effect which must always follow God's judgment. No rank, no state, no condition of man is exempt. Whe...
Here the Prophet adds, although the Israelites provide themselves with every aid, and prepare all things for carrying on the war, nay, while they omit nothing for the best fortification, yet when it c...
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...
THEY HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET, EVEN TO MAKE ALL READY,.... That is, the Jews, when they understood that the enemy was approaching, blew the trumpet, to give the inhabitants of their several cities and t...
They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath [is] upon all the multitude thereof. Ver. 14. _They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready._] B...
_Let not the buyer rejoice_, &c. The buyer will have no reason to rejoice, because he will not enjoy what he hath bought; nor the seller have cause to mourn for having been obliged to part with his po...
They, the Jews, the people of the covenant nation, HAVE BLOWN THE TRUMPET, AS THOUGH PREPARING FOR BATTLE, even to make all ready; BUT NONE GOETH TO THE BATTLE, their courage having been taken from th...
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
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...
The house of Israel have published their resolution for war, and summoned in all fit for arms, if the words be read as here. Or if in the imperative mood, Blow ye, &c., they are a smart irony against...
Ezekiel 7:14 blown H8628 (H8804) trumpet H8619 ready H3559 (H8687) goes H1980 (H8802) battle H4421 wrath...
“They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready. But none goes to battle. For my wrath is on all their multitude. The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine inside. He who is in the...
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...
Ezekiel 7:11; Ezekiel 7:12; Isaiah 24:1; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 4:5
They — The house of Israel have summoned in all fit for arms. None — There is not a man going to the war. Wrath — That displeasure which takes away their courage....