_Moreover the spirit lifted me up_ It seems it should rather have been rendered, _And the spirit had lifted me up_, for here he appears to go back to speak about those twenty-five men of whom he made mention Ezekiel 7:16, but had broken off from speaking of them to speak of things of greater importa... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore prophesy against them_ Declare to them how different things shall happen to them from what they expect. _And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me_ See note on Ezekiel 3:24. _And said unto me, Speak; Thus have ye said_ Ye have advanced the assertion, mentioned Ezekiel 11:3. “You have rightl... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye have multiplied your slain in this city_ Ye have, without law or justice, shed the blood of many in your streets. From this, and many other expressions in the Scripture, we may conclude that not only private murders were extremely frequent among them, but that they also frequently put to death,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye have feared the sword_ Of the Chaldeans; and have, to avoid it, courted them, and left my worship to follow their idolatrous rites: but this very sword will I bring upon you. _And I will deliver you into the hands of strangers_ Defeating all your projects for escape; _and I will execute judgment... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when I prophesied, Pelatiah died_ Mentioned Ezekiel 11:1, a principal man among the twenty-five princes, who made all the mischief in Jerusalem: see note on Ezekiel 11:2. It seems this was done only in vision now, (as the slaying of the ancient men, Ezekiel 9:6,) but it was an assurance, that w... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 kindred_, or, _of thy redemption_, as גאלתן may be rendered: that is, _thy fellow-captives_, as Bishop Ne... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore say_ In vindication of the captives; _Although I have cast them far off_ Not from myself, but from you and your polluted land, and out of the way of the dreadful judgments which are approaching; _among the heathen_ The Chaldeans, or those among whom the Chaldeans have placed them; _and ha... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will even gather you from the people_ This might be, in some degree, fulfilled in those that returned from captivity, but the perfect completion of this promise must be referred to the time of the expected general restoration of the Jewish nation. _And they shall come thither_ They who assemble u... [ Continue Reading ]
_But as for them_ Whoever they be, and some there will be in the best times, who will refuse to own God for their God, and truly to love and obey him. _Whose heart walketh after their detestable things_ Whose judgment and choice, or whose will and affections, go after their idols and iniquities, the... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city_ The symbol of God's presence, which had before departed from the temple, (Ezekiel 10:18,) now quite left the city, to signify that he would acknowledge no longer his relation to either, but deliver them up to be profaned by the heathen.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The spirit took me, and brought me in vision into Chaldea _ That is, took away from before my eyes the image of Jerusalem and the temple, &c., and presented nothing to my mind but what was the real matter of fact, namely, that I was a captive with many others of my countrymen in the land of Chaldea... [ Continue Reading ]