Thy kindred - The original word is derived from a root, suggesting the ideas of “redeeming” and “avenging” as connected with the bond of “kindred.” The word, therefore, conveys here a special reproach to the proud Jews, who have been so ready to cast off the claims of blood-relationship, and at the same time a hope of restoration to those who have been rudely thrown aside.
Verse Ezekiel 11:15. _GET YOU FAR FROM THE LORD_] These are the words of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against those of Israel who had been carried away to Babylon with Jeconiah. _Go ye far from the L...
Ezekiel 11:1. The priests and the leaders of the nation were steeped in wickedness, defied God and the judgments His prophets had announced. They devised mischief (or iniquity) and gave wicked counsel...
A GLIMMER OF HOPE. The people who, at the first deportation (597 B.C.), were allowed to remain in the land, clearly thought themselves superior to those who, like Ezekiel, had been taken to Babylon fa...
THY BRETHREN... THY BRETHREN. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. KINDRED = redemption....
_the men of thy kindred_ Lit. _the men of thy redemption_. This could only mean, the men to be redeemed, or delivered, by thy intercession the men for whom thou shouldst pray. Such a sense is difficul...
_EZEKIEL 11:15_. S_ON OF MAN,_ &C.— _Son of man, thy brethren, the men who are captives with thee, and all the house of Israel; all those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, They are vanished fa...
III. DECLARATIONS BY THE PROPHET 11:1-25 Chapter 11 sets forth two declarations by the prophet in his vision. The first (Ezekiel 11:1-13) denounced the leaders in Jerusalem. The second brought comfort...
B. The Jewish Exiles Encouraged 11:14-21 TRANSLATION (14) And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (15) Son of man, your brethren, your kinsmen, and all the house of Israel all of these are the...
Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us...
11:15 kindred, (b-14) See Leviticus 25:25 ,Leviticus 25:48 ....
THY BRETHREN.. ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL] The exiles of the first captivity are identified with the true Israel. GET YOU FAR FROM THE LORD, etc.] The people of Jerusalem claimed that God was only among...
THE DOOM OF THE LEADERS OF JERUSALEM'S WICKEDNESS. COMFORT FOR THE EXILES The slaughter in Ezekiel 9 was only the visionary rehearsal of a judgment still in the future. The vision now takes another tu...
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 11 HOW GOD WOULD PUNISH THE LEADERS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 11:...
THY BRETHREN — _i.e.,_ those who were with Ezekiel in the Captivity. The expression is made emphatic by repetition, and by the addition, “men of thy kindred.” The people remaining in Jerusalem, with a...
בֶּן ־אָדָ֗ם אַחֶ֤יךָ אַחֶ֨יךָ֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י גְאֻלָּתֶ֔ךָ...
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
A NEW HEART PROMISED Ezekiel 11:5-25 The Spirit of God led the prophet to the East Gate of the Temple, where the Shekinah had settled, Ezekiel 10:19. There He uttered the divine verdict on the priest...
The prophet was now lifted by the Spirit, and brought to the east gate, that is, to the place whither the glory of God had departed. There he saw a conclave of five and twenty men presided over by pri...
Son of man, thy (g) brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Retire far from the LORD: to u...
_Thy brethren, &c. He speaks of them that had been carried away captives before, who were despised by them that remained in Jerusalem; but, as the prophet here declares to them from God, should be in...
It should seem, that this is not only a new sermon, but delivered at a different period from the former, though the interval was not perhaps long. And it is a very sweet and gracious sermon, and full...
In chapter 11 God judges the leaders of iniquity, who comforted themselves in the thought that the city was impregnable [1]. They should be brought out from the midst thereof and be judged in the bord...
SON OF MAN, THY BRETHREN, [EVEN] THY BRETHREN, THE MEN OF THY KINDRED,.... Or, "of thy redemption" l; to whom the right of redemption of his lands and possessions belonged, as it did to those that wer...
Son of man, thy brethren, [even] thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, [are] they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto...
_Again the word of the Lord came unto me_ A seasonable word, to stop the mouths of the insulting Jerusalemites, and to encourage the captives at Babylon. _Son of man, thy brethren The men of thy kindr...
THE PROMISE TO SAVE A REMNANT...
Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men. of thy kindred, a very close relationship being implied, more than that of the flesh only, as the repetition shows, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL WH...
14-21 The pious captives in Babylon were insulted by the Jews who continued in Jerusalem; but God made gracious promises to them. It is promised, that God will give them one heart; a heart firmly fix...
SON OF MAN: see EZEKIEL 2:1. THY BRETHREN; thy nearest kindred, which it seems were left in Jerusalem, and were grown as bad as the rest, though theirs were of a priestly lineage. Their degeneracy and...
Ezekiel 11:15 Son H1121 man H120 brethren H251 relatives H251 countrymen H582 H1353 house H1004 Israel H3478 i
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man. Your brothers, even your brothers, the men related by blood (kindred) to you, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the in...
CONTENTS: Vision of wrath against lying princes. Promise to spare the remnant. Israel's coming restoration and converson. Departure of the glory from Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel,...
Ezekiel 11:2. _These are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city._ These twenty five men, with two princes at their head, Jaazaniah and Pelatiah, were the infidel club of th...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:14 Ezekiel’s outcry in v. Ezekiel 11:13 apparently prompts one of the most important statements of hope in the book, one closely connected to the “new heart” passage i
(5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jeru...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 11:1 MOREOVER THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, etc. It is noticeable that the position to which Ezekiel was thus transported in his vision from his place in the inner court (Ezekiel 8:14),...
CHAPTER 11. DESTRUCTION OF A CORRUPT PRIESTHOOD, WITH THE PROMISE OF GRACE AND BLESSING TO A BELIEVING REMNANT AMONG THE EXILES. Ezekiel 11:1. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east g...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel, chapter 11. Now Ezekiel is in Babylon during the time of these prophecies, but the Spirit of God transports him back to Jerusalem. And there he sees things tha...
Ezekiel 33:24; Isaiah 65:5; Isaiah 66:5; Jeremiah 24:1; John 16:2...
Thy brethren — Thy nearest kindred, which it seems were left in Jerusalem. Their degeneracy is more noted in the repetition of the word brethren. Gone far — Ye are gone far from the Lord; as much as t...