Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ezekiel 9:8
One of the few instances in which Ezekiel's love of his nation struggles with his approval of God's judgments upon them. He fears that all Israel may share Jerusalem's fate.
One of the few instances in which Ezekiel's love of his nation struggles with his approval of God's judgments upon them. He fears that all Israel may share Jerusalem's fate.
Verse Ezekiel 9:8. _WILT THOU DESTROY ALL THE RESIDUE OF ISRAEL, ON THY_ _POURING OUT OF THY FURY UPON JERUSALEM?_] These destroyers had slain the _seventy_ elders, the _twenty-five_ adorers of the su...
LEFT - The prophet was left alone, all who had been around him were slain....
Ezekiel 9:1. The six men mentioned are angels, into whose hands the city is given. Angels are used in judgments past and future. (See Matthew 13:41; Matthew 16:27;...
EZEKIEL 9. THE PITILESS SLAUGHTER OF THE SINNERS. The doom has been abundantly justified; now it comes, and in bloody form. In obedience to a ringing summons, seven angels come forth to execute it six...
I FELL UPON MY FACE. See note on Ezekiel 1:28. AH. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Adonai Jehovah_. App-4. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....
Ezekiel 9:8. Intercession of the Prophet _and I_was _left_ The executioners passed out of the inner court, leaving only dead behind them, and the prophet was left alone (Isaiah 49:21. The anomalous fo...
II. DESTRUCTION BY THE LORD 9:1-10:22 The visions which are recorded in Chapter s 9 and 10 follow logically the terrible indictment of the previous chapter. A fourfold development is evident in the vi...
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fu...
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 9 THE MAN WITH A WRITER’S CASE – EZEKIEL 9:1-4 V1 Then I
I WAS LEFT. — The words imply _left alone._ The prophet had just before seen the courts of the sanctuary thronged with idolaters in the full glory of their heaven-defying sin. Now it is a city of the...
וַֽ יְהִי֙ כְּ הַכֹּותָ֔ם וְ נֵֽאשֲׁאַ֖ר אָ֑נ
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
The next section of the message most remarkably reveals the fact of the divine discrimination in judgment. The prophet was charged in the vision to cause those who had charge over the city to draw nea...
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, (i) Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy the whole remnant of Israel in thy pouring out of t...
The Prophet's situation is strikingly marked. While they were slaying, he was left alone. How must he have felt? What must have been his views? He knew, that it was distinguishing grace and mercy alon...
The Prophet does not so carefully preserve the historical order in the context of the words. For he says, _the Chaldeans had returned _He afterwards adds, _while they were striking the city that he fe...
The glory of Jehovah visits the temple. He takes His place on the side that looked towards the city, and, after having shewn the prophet the heinous sins committed there, He gives command to execute t...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE THEY WERE SLAYING THEM,.... That were in the city: AND I WAS LEFT; in the temple; and the only one that was left there, the rest were slain; for there were none marked in t...
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fur...
_And while they were slaying, and I was left_ Having, as it is to be supposed, the mark of preservation set upon his forehead by the protecting angel. He seems to speak as if he thought he alone was p...
THE LORD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE GUILTY. The wickedness of the people described in chapter 8 is now followed by its proper punishment at the hand of the Lord in full agreement with the certain fulfillmen...
And it came to pass while they were slaying them and I was left, he being the first one to be spared, and possibly the only one, in the Temple area, THAT I FELL UPON MY FACE, in the attitude of most u...
5-11 The slaughter must begin at the sanctuary, that all may see and know that the Lord hates sin most in those nearest to him. He who was appointed to protect, reported the matter. Christ is faithfu...
AND IT CAME TO PASS: this is a most usual transition, and Scripture phrase. WHILE; there was some space of time taken up in the execution. THEY WERE SLAYING; the six slaughtermen; not bodily and actua...
Ezekiel 9:8 killing H5221 (H8687) left H7604 (H8737) fell H5307 (H8799) face H6440 out H2199 ...
‘And it was so that while they were smiting and I was left, I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh. Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your fury on...
CONTENTS: Visions of the slaying in Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Christ. CONCLUSION: Those who live in sin and hate to be reformed, despising God's Word, will perish in sin, and deserve not...
Ezekiel 9:2. _Behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate._ These were the high and mighty angels of God, who as guardians had charge of the city. The Chaldean army were but the secondary exe...
_I was left._ SPARED I. A pathetic reflection, which seems to invite us to take a solemn retrospect - “I was left.” You remember, many of you, times of sickness. You walked among the graves, but you...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 9:1 A team of seven angels carries out the execution of the unfaithful in Jerusalem at God’s command. Only one of them is assigned the job of protecting the faithful. The proph...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 9:8 AH, LORD GOD! WILL YOU DESTROY ALL THE REMNANT? Compare Ezekiel 11:13....
2. _The Prophet Interceding in Vain_ (Ezekiel 9:8) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 9:8. Ezekiel recovers from a passing surprise while the slaughter in the city was proceeding, and then realises his solita...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 9:1 HE CRIED, etc. The voice comes, as before, from the human form, seen as a theophany, in the midst of the Divine glory. CAUSE THEM THAT HAVE CHARGE OVER THE CITY. The noun is an...
CHAPTER 9. THE VISION OF THE SEALING. Ezekiel 9:1. _And he cried in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Let the overseers of the city come near,_ (The language in this opening verse, as well as the...
He cried also in my ear with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have the charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand (Ezekiel 9:1). So he heard Him now...
1 Chronicles 21:16; Amos 7:2; Deuteronomy 9:18; Ezekiel 11:13;...
Was left — Left alone, now both the sealer, and the slayers were gone....