Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 12:23
Verse Ezekiel 12:23. The days are at hand] Far from failing or being prolonged, time is posting on, and the destruction threatened is at the door.
Verse Ezekiel 12:23. The days are at hand] Far from failing or being prolonged, time is posting on, and the destruction threatened is at the door.
As in Ezekiel 7, the nearness of the judgment is foretold. Ezekiel 12:22 THE LAND OF ISRAEL - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was...
CHAPTER S 12-19 Signs, Messages, and Parables _ 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1) _ 2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21) 3. The message against false prophets and prop...
DISREGARD OF THE TRUE PROPHETS. One reason for ignoring the stern message of Ezekiel is suggested by the popular saying that the days keep stretching out but the doom is never fulfilled, so that there...
ARE AT HAND. The fulfilment took place five years later. EFFECT. word: i.e. the [fulfilled] word, meaning, or purpose....
Warning against despising of prophecy The prophet felt that such threats as those just uttered (Ezekiel 12:1) were neglected and little thought of. People disposed of such prophecies by saying that t...
Judgment had been so often threatened and so often deferred that the failure of prophecy to realize itself became a proverb. Too superficial to apprehend the meaning of its postponement these scoffers...
DISCOURSE: 1102 DEATH AND ETERNITY NEAR AT HAND Ezekiel 12:23. _The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision_. EXCEEDINGLY diversified were the ways by which God communicated his mind to his...
AND THE WORD, &C.— The latter part of the 22nd verse is spoken in the person of infidels, who turn the grace of God into wantonness, taking encouragement from his patience and long-suffering to despis...
II. TWO POPULAR SAYINGS CORRECTED 12:21-28 TRANSLATION (21) And the word OF the LORD came unto me, saying, (22) Son of man, what is this proverb that your people have concerning the land of Israel,...
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every...
12:23 proverb (c-25) See ch. 16.44. accomplishment (d-39) Lit. 'word,' 'matter,' _ dabar_ . see Psalms 119:11 ....
§ 4. FURTHER PROPHECIES OF ISRAEL'S GUILT AND APPROACHING PUNISHMENT (EZEKIEL 12-19) This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September,...
ON PROPHECY, TRUE AND FALSE After rebuking certain prevalent forms of contempt for prophecy (Ezekiel 12:21), Ezekiel reproves the false prophets (Ezekiel 13:1) and false prophetesses (Ezekiel 13:17) o...
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 12 *PROPHECY OF THE *EXILE – EZEKIEL 12:1-20 V1 Th
THE EFFECT OF EVERY VISION. — The sense would be made clearer by rendering “the accomplishment” of every vision....
(21-28) These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord (Ezekiel 12:21), both designed to meet the objection that warning prophecies had been uttered now for a long time, and as they had not...
לָכֵ֞ן אֱמֹ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֮ אֲדֹנָ֣י...
PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed under the ge...
The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the comm...
CHAPTER XII....
Here is a third sermon of the Prophet; and it is to the same purport as the former. It should seem, that it was become almost proverbial, if judgments did not immediately follow the commission of sin,...
Chapter 12 announces the fight and the capture of Zedekiah, who would be carried to Babylon though he would. not see it. All the force of Judah would be dispersed, and the land laid desolate; a small...
TELL THEM THEREFORE,.... Plainly and boldly, with the greatest assurance and confidence, as from God himself: THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, I WILL MAKE THIS PROVERB TO CEASE; by quickly accomplishing the...
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every...
_Son of man, what is that proverb?_ The saying become proverbial. _The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth_ Words of the same import with those that occur Ezekiel 12:27, and Ezekiel 11:3. Bot...
THE SIGN OF BREAD AND WATER...
Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb to cease, making an end of its blasphemous mockery, AND THEY SHALL NO MORE USE IT AS A PROVERB IN ISRAEL; BUT SAY UNTO THEM, THE...
21-28 From that forbearance of God, which should have led them to repent, the Jews hardened themselves in sin. It will not serve for an excuse in speaking evil, to plead that it is a common saying. Th...
TELL THEM; either who use the proverb, or are stumbled at it; tell the one to convince, the other to instruct them. I WILL MAKE THIS PROVERB TO CEASE: thus they abuse my patience, and affront my truth...
Ezekiel 12:23 Tell H559 (H8798) says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 proverb H4912 rest H7673 ...
“Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel.' But say to them, ‘The days are at hand and the word (i.e. car...
CONTENTS: Vision of the prophet as a sign. Full captivity near at hand. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Sinners often try to think their works are not evil because sentence upon them is not ex...
Ezekiel 12:3. _Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing._ Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the pr...
_The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth._ PROPHECY A LIVING FORCE Right in the midst of the history of Israel, when Divine purposes of the highest moral and spiritual importance were being...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:1 The predictions of exile in this chapter come during a time when the exile has already begun. Thus, the chapter probably relates to the uncertain decade between 597 B.C. ...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 12:21 Apparently the delay in the prophecy’s fulfillment allowed time for counter-prophecies to be given. These false statements are answered here. ⇐
(3.) THE FOOLISH PROVERB (Ezekiel 12:21) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The hearts of the Jerusalem people would evade any fair application of the ominous action of Ezekiel, and he is incited to aim a blow at the...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 12:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in this chapte...
CHAPTER 12. THE VISION OF EZEKIEL'S TYPICAL REMOVING AS AN EXILE, AND ACCOMPANYING INSTRUCTIONS. Ezekiel 12:1. _And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,_ Ezekiel 12:2. Son of man, thou dwellest i...
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for...
Ezekiel 12:25; Ezekiel 18:3; Ezekiel 7:10; Ezekiel 7:2; Ezekiel 7:5;...