Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 7:22
My secret place - The inner sanctuary, hidden from the multitude, protected by the most high.
My secret place - The inner sanctuary, hidden from the multitude, protected by the most high.
Verse Ezekiel 7:22. _THE ROBBERS SHALL ENTER INTO IT_] The Chaldeans shall not only destroy the city; but they shall enter the temple, deface it, plunder it, and burn it to the ground....
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...
In the dread day of the siege, _when_ ruthless Babylonian hands would profane Yahweh's secret (or rather cherished) place, _i.e._ the Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gold...
Picture of the dissolution of the state (1) Ezekiel 7:14. The trumpet shall sound the alarm, but none shall prepare himself for the battle. The sword shall devour without and famine consume within. A...
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...
The enemy shall penetrate into the temple and profane it. _turn … from them_ This most naturally refers to Israel, from whom the Lord will turn his face in anger, cf. Ezekiel 7:11. It might refer to...
AND THEY SHALL POLLUTE MY SECRET PLACE— _My treasures shall be esteemed as profane; for the robbers shall come, who shall pollute them._ Houbigant. Others understand this of the profanation of the tem...
3. _The economic distress (7:19-22_) TRANSLATION (19) They shall cast their silver into the streets, and their gold shall become an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to del...
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. THEY SHALL POLLUTE MY PLACE - just retribution for the Jews' polluti...
7:22 violent (b-18) Or 'robbers.'...
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...
SECRET _place_] RM 'secret treasure.' Not the Holy of Holies specially, but Jerusalern and the Temple viewed as God's precious possession....
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...
MY SECRET PLACE. — The holy of holies, sacredly guarded from all intrusion, and representing the very culmination both of the religion and of the national life of Israel, shall be polluted. If the pro...
וַ הֲסִבֹּותִ֤י פָנַי֙ מֵהֶ֔ם וְ חִלְּל֖וּ אֶ
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...
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my (r) secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. (r) Which signifies the most holy place, into which none might en...
_Secret: the inward sanctuary, the holy of holies. (Challoner) --- God would guard it no longer. (Calmet)_...
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...
As to the beginning of the verse there is no ambiguity, for God pronounces that the Jews would be miserable, _because he would avert his face from them _For in this was situated their happiness, that...
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...
MY FACE WILL ONE TURN ALSO FROM THEM,.... Deny them his presence, and withdraw his protection from them; show them no favour, nor afford them any help and succour in their distress, when they cry unto...
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. Ver. 22. _My face will I turn also from them._] From the Chaldees, th...
_As for the beauty of his ornament_ The temple and all that pertained to it, which was the beauty and glory of the Jewish nation, and accounted so by them; _he set it in majesty_ God commanded that it...
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
My face will I turn also from them, from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, AND THEY, the invaders, SHALL POLLUTE MY SECRET PLACE, namely, the treasury of the Sanctuary, which was profaned by the Chaldeans...
ROBBERS: Or, buglers...
16-22 Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining t...
MY FACE WILL I TURN; either from the Jews, who cry under such violence and profaneness; or, from the Chaldeans who act it, neither relieving the one nor restraining the other. MY SECRET PLACE; either,...
Ezekiel 7:22 turn H5437 (H8689) face H6440 defile H2490 (H8765) secret H6845 (H8803) robbers H6530 enter...
“As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations, and their detestable things in it. Therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing. And I...
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...
Jeremiah 18:17; Psalms 10:11; Psalms 35:22; Psalms 74:10; Psalms 74
Turn — Either from the Jews, or from the Chaldeans, neither relieving the one nor restraining the other. Secret place — The temple, and the holy of holies. Robbers — The soldiers....