Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Ezekiel 11:21
But as for them, &c.— But whoever turn their hearts to idols and detestable things, I, &c.
But as for them, &c.— But whoever turn their hearts to idols and detestable things, I, &c.
Verse Ezekiel 11:21. _BUT_ AS FOR THEM _WHOSE HEART WALKETH_] Them whose affections are attached to idolatry, they shall have such reward as their idols can give them, and such a recompense as Divine...
Compare Revelation 21. The identity of thought and language in Ezekiel, predicting the new kingdom of Israel, and in John, foretelling the kingdom of heaven, forces upon us the conclusion that the pro...
Ezekiel 11:1. The priests and the leaders of the nation were steeped in wickedness, defied God and the judgments His prophets had announced. They devised mischief (or iniquity) and gave wicked counsel...
A GLIMMER OF HOPE. The people who, at the first deportation (597 B.C.), were allowed to remain in the land, clearly thought themselves superior to those who, like Ezekiel, had been taken to Babylon fa...
But those who cleave to their abominations shall receive the recompense of their ways there is no peace saith the Lord to the wicked (Isaiah 48:22). The language "whose heart walketh _after the heart...
III. DECLARATIONS BY THE PROPHET 11:1-25 Chapter 11 sets forth two declarations by the prophet in his vision. The first (Ezekiel 11:1-13) denounced the leaders in Jerusalem. The second brought comfort...
B. The Jewish Exiles Encouraged 11:14-21 TRANSLATION (14) And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, (15) Son of man, your brethren, your kinsmen, and all the house of Israel all of these are the...
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. AS FOR THEM WHOSE HEART...
11:21 with (d-9) Or 'heartily after.' recompense (e-18) As ch. 9.10....
THE DOOM OF THE LEADERS OF JERUSALEM'S WICKEDNESS. COMFORT FOR THE EXILES The slaughter in Ezekiel 9 was only the visionary rehearsal of a judgment still in the future. The vision now takes another tu...
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 11 HOW GOD WOULD PUNISH THE LEADERS OF *ISRAEL – EZEKIEL 11:...
I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR WAY. — In striking contrast to the mercy granted to the repentant, is set forth here, as in Revelation 21:8, the Divine wrath upon the impenitent. It has never been promised th...
וְ אֶל ־לֵ֧ב שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶ֛ם וְ תֹועֲבֹותֵיהֶ֖ם...
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1; Ezekiel 9:1; Ezekiel 10:1; Ezekiel 11:1 ONE of the most instructive phases of reli
A NEW HEART PROMISED Ezekiel 11:5-25 The Spirit of God led the prophet to the East Gate of the Temple, where the Shekinah had settled, Ezekiel 10:19. There He uttered the divine verdict on the priest...
The prophet was now lifted by the Spirit, and brought to the east gate, that is, to the place whither the glory of God had departed. There he saw a conclave of five and twenty men presided over by pri...
_Head. I will punish them as their crimes deserve. (Calmet)_...
It should seem, that this is not only a new sermon, but delivered at a different period from the former, though the interval was not perhaps long. And it is a very sweet and gracious sermon, and full...
The phrase which the Prophet uses is indeed harsh: he says, _their heart goes after heart, _so that some interpret this of imitation: namely, since God promises that he will be an avenger if any of th...
In chapter 11 God judges the leaders of iniquity, who comforted themselves in the thought that the city was impregnable [1]. They should be brought out from the midst thereof and be judged in the bord...
BUT [AS FOR THEM],.... Who remained in Jerusalem, and were not carried captive, but continued in their, own land, and worshipped idols, the same as in Ezekiel 11:15; WHOSE HEART WALKETH AFTER THE HEA...
But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 21. _But as for the...
_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 thing...
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord God, thereby pronouncing sentenc...
THE PROMISE TO SAVE A REMNANT...
14-21 The pious captives in Babylon were insulted by the Jews who continued in Jerusalem; but God made gracious promises to them. It is promised, that God will give them one heart; a heart firmly fix...
For all those promises, and in the best times, some there will be who will refuse to own God and obey him, whose state shall as much differ as their practices did from the people of God. AS FOR THEM,...
Ezekiel 11:21 hearts H3820 follow H1980 (H8802) desire H3820 things H8251 abominations H8441 recompense H5414 (H8804
“But as for those whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads,” says the Lord Yahweh. God now finished off His commen...
CONTENTS: Vision of wrath against lying princes. Promise to spare the remnant. Israel's coming restoration and converson. Departure of the glory from Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ezekiel,...
Ezekiel 11:2. _These are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city._ These twenty five men, with two princes at their head, Jaazaniah and Pelatiah, were the infidel club of th...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:14 Ezekiel’s outcry in v. Ezekiel 11:13 apparently prompts one of the most important statements of hope in the book, one closely connected to the “new heart” passage i
(5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jeru...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 11:1 MOREOVER THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, etc. It is noticeable that the position to which Ezekiel was thus transported in his vision from his place in the inner court (Ezekiel 8:14),...
CHAPTER 11. DESTRUCTION OF A CORRUPT PRIESTHOOD, WITH THE PROMISE OF GRACE AND BLESSING TO A BELIEVING REMNANT AMONG THE EXILES. Ezekiel 11:1. And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east g...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel, chapter 11. Now Ezekiel is in Babylon during the time of these prophecies, but the Spirit of God transports him back to Jerusalem. And there he sees things tha...
Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 20:31; Ezekiel 20:38;...
Heart — Soul and affections. Walketh — Either secretly adhere to, or provide for the service of idols, called here detestable things....