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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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DESOLATION. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6,
for rent garments, which were the outward expression of inward grief.
DESERTS. judgments, Compare Ezekiel 7:23.
THEY SHALL KNOW, &...
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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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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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_king shall mourn_ 2 Samuel 19. The "prince" is Ezekiel's usual term
for the chief civil ruler, and princes for those of the royal house.
The clause "the king shall mourn" is wanting in LXX. On "cloth...
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I WILL DO UNTO THEM AFTER THEIR WAY, &C.— So _will I do unto them,
as have been their own ways; I will judge them as they judged;_ for in
the 23rd verse it is said that the land was full of bloody cri...
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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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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with
desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled:
I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts
w...
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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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הַ מֶּ֣לֶךְ יִתְאַבָּ֗ל וְ נָשִׂיא֙
יִלְבַּ֣שׁ...
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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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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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REFLECTIONS
Lord! help both Writer and Reader in the perusal of this solemn
Chapter, to make application of the awakening contents to themselves,
as it concerns the great day of the Lord. Yet a little...
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In this verse the Prophet affirms that God’s vengeance should be so
common that it should alight equally upon the highest and the lowest.
He begins with the king, then he descends to his counselors, t...
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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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THE KING SHALL MOURN, AND THE PRINCE SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH
DESOLATION,.... Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being
able to save himself and his people; and who falling into the hands of
th...
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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do
unto them after their way, and according to their deserts wi...
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_Destruction cometh_ Such as a provoked power makes when it cuts off
all, root and branch. _And they shall seek peace_ By inquiring of the
prophets; or rather, by suing to Nebuchadnezzar, whom, after...
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THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
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The king shall mourn, as the ruler of the nation, AND THE PRINCE, the
heads of the smaller divisions in the nation, SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH
DESOLATION, AND THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, that is,...
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ACCORDING TO:
_ Heb._ with their judgments...
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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 KING, Zedekiah, shall mourn, droop and despair, and every
magistrate shall despond. The hands of the people: see EZEKIEL 7:17.
SHALL BE TROUBLED; hang down, and melt away. I will no more forbear
w...
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“I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts
will I judge them. And they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Here was the final reason for what was to come upon them. They have
deserved...
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“Mischief will come upon mischief, and rumour will be upon rumour,
and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law will perish
from the priest, and counsel from the elders. The king will mour...
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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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1 Kings 20:28; Ezekiel 12:10; Ezekiel 17:15; Ezekiel 18:30;...
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The king — Zedekiah. The prince — Every magistrate. Troubled —
Hang down, and melt away. What can men contrive or do for themselves,
when God is departed from them? All must needs be in tears, all in...