Ezekiel 12:2
Compare Deuteronomy 1:26; margin reference; Romans 10:21. The repetition of such words from age to age, shows that the prophet’s words are intended to reach beyond the generation in which he lived.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare Deuteronomy 1:26; margin reference; Romans 10:21. The repetition of such words from age to age, shows that the prophet’s words are intended to reach beyond the generation in which he lived.... [ Continue Reading ]
STUFF - Raiment, vessels, and the like. The “removing” was to be of the kind that accompanied exile. The whole account of this transaction marks it as a real act. The prophet was to be “a sign” to his countrymen, and the “exiles” as well as those that remained in Judaea had need to be taught this le... [ Continue Reading ]
The particulars which Ezekiel here foretold actually occurred (compare 2 Kings 25:4; Jeremiah 39:4); but at this time Zedekiah seemed to be prosperous, and the Jews at Jerusalem expected, it is clear, a long continuance of his prosperity (see Ezekiel 17:1 note). The prophetic character of the passag... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT COVER THY FACE - A sign of mourning (see Ezekiel 24:17); also of Zedekiah’s blindness Ezekiel 12:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
In the evening the prophet was to return to the wall, break through it, and transport the goods from the inside to the outside of the city.... [ Continue Reading ]
BURDEN - A word used to indicate a prediction of woe to be borne by some individual or people (Isaiah 13:1 note). Ezekiel, bearing his “stuff” on his shoulder was a sign of the weight of calamity coming upon king and people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare Jeremiah 52:9 ff... [ Continue Reading ]
FEW - literally, as in the margin; so few, that they can easily be counted Isaiah 10:19. The few who should escape destruction should make known to all among whom they should dwell how great had been the wickedness of the people, how just their punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND - Chaldaea. OF THE INHABITANTS - In respect to “the inhabitants.” DESOLATE FROM, ALL THAT IS THEREIN - i. e., stripped of all its inhabitants and of all its wealth. At one and the same time, Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem, and Ezekiel in Chaldaea; the prophecies of t... [ Continue Reading ]
As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold. Ezekiel 12:22 THE LAND OF ISRAEL - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was prevalent a disregard for the true prophets, which is ever followed by a recognition of the false.... [ Continue Reading ]