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Verse Ezekiel 7:24. _THE WORST OF THE HEATHEN_] The Chaldeans; the
most cruel and idolatrous of all nations....
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THE WORST OF THE PAGAN - The most cruel and terrible of nations - the
Chaldaeans.
THE POMP OF THE STRONG - Compare Leviticus 26:19 “The strong” are
those who pride themselves in imaginary strength.
T...
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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...
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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...
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HEATHEN. nations.
THE STRONG. The Septuagint evidently read `uzzam, instead of `uzzim
("the fierce ones"), Compare Ezekiel 24:21.
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5....
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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...
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_worst of the heathen_ Cf. Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:11 the terrible of
the nations. Jeremiah 6:23; Habakkuk 1:7.
_the pomp of the strong_
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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...
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THE WORST OF THE HEATHEN— _The shepherds of the heathen._ Houbigant....
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4. _The political disorder (7:23-27_)
TRANSLATION
(23) Make the chain; for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city
is full of violence. (24) Therefore I have brought the worst of
nations, and the...
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
WHEREFORE I WILL BRIN...
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7:24 profaned. (c-32) Or 'they shall inherit their sanctuaries.'...
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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...
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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...
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WORST OF THE HEATHEN. — _Worst_ refers to the power and thoroughness
of their work against the Israelites. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:49; also
Leviticus 26:19, where the word here rendered “pomp of the str...
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וְ הֵֽבֵאתִי֙ רָעֵ֣י גֹויִ֔ם וְ
יָרְשׁ֖וּ אֶת
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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...
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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...
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
cease; and their (u) holy places shall be defiled.
(u) Which was the t...
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_Sanctuary; the temple of God, or of idols, chap. vi. 3._...
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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...
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He repeats what he had said, that enemies would come who should be
ministers of God’s vengeance. And again we learn from this place,
that even the impious are impelled by the hand and secret direction...
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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...
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WHEREFORE I WILL BRING THE WORST OF THE HEATHEN,.... The Chaldeans,
notorious for their cruelty, savageness, and barbarity:
AND THEY SHALL POSSESS THEIR HOUSES; which they have built, and
thought to...
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall
possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to
cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
Ver. 24. _Wherefore I w...
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_Make a chain_ To foreshow the approaching captivity, when both king
and people should be carried in chains to Babylon. _For the land is
full of bloody crimes_ The innocent blood that has been shed in...
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THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
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Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, those who excelled in
transgressions as they invaded the land of Israel, AND THEY SHALL
POSSESS THEIR HOUSES, occupying them for themselves; I WILL ALS...
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THEIR HOLY PLACES SHALL BE DEFILED:
Or, they shall inherit their holy places...
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23-27 Whoever break the bands of God's law, will find themselves bound
and held by the chains of his judgments. Since they encouraged one
another to sin, God would dishearten them. All must needs be i...
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THE WORST; the most violent, proud, and bloody men; such the Chaldeans
showed themselves. POSSESS; not only dwell in their houses, but by
right of conquest account them their own, and descending to th...
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“For this reason I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they
will possess their houses. And I will also make the pride of the
strong to cease, and their holy places will be profaned. Destruction
c...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 7:19; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 21:31; Ezekiel 28:7;...
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The pomp — The magnificence and glory, wherein they boasted; or the
temple that the Jews gloried in....