Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 7:16
Verse Ezekiel 7:16. They - shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys] Rather, like mourning doves הגאיות haggeayoth, chased from their dove-cotes, and separated from their mates.
Verse Ezekiel 7:16. They - shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys] Rather, like mourning doves הגאיות haggeayoth, chased from their dove-cotes, and separated from their mates.
As doves whose natural abode is the valleys moan lamentably when driven by fear into the mountains, so shall the remnant, who have escaped actual death, moan in the land of their exile....
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...
That dreadful day, which would extinguish their political existence, would no less bring to an end all their social and commercial life. The proud blossoms of Judah would soon be smitten and withered....
INIQUITY. As in Ezekiel 7:13 but here is put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Effect), App-6, for the judgment which was the consequence of it....
Read: AND WHEN (if) THEY THAT ESCAPE OF THEM SHALL ESCAPE, THEY SHALL BE UPON THE MOUNTAINS. _mourning_ This refers to the doves: the fugitives shall be on the mountains (seeking refuge) like doves of...
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...
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...
LIKE DOVES OF THE VALLEYS— There can be no reason, says Houbigant, why it should be rendered, _doves of the valleys;_ the true rendering is, _like mourning doves: they shall be in the mountains mourni...
2._ The military dismay (7:14-18_) TRANSLATION (14) They have blown the trumpet and all is made ready, but none is going to the battle; for My wrath is against all its multitude. (15) The sword is wi...
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. THEY THAT ESCAPE OF THEM SHALL ESCAPE - ( ). AN...
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...
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...
LIKE DOVES OF THE VALLEYS. — To this general destruction there will be exceptions, as generally in war there are fugitives and captives; but these, like doves whose home is in the valleys driven by fe...
וּ פָֽלְטוּ֙ פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם וְ הָי֣וּ אֶל ־הֶ
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...
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...
_Doves, not daring to vent their complaints. (Calmet)_...
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...
The Prophet seems here to be at variance with himself, because he formerly pronounced them all devoted to destruction. How, then, does he now say that some should come hither and thither, to seek hidi...
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...
BUT THEY THAT ESCAPE OF THEM SHALL ESCAPE,.... Some few should escape the pestilence, famine, and sword, and flee to the mountains, where they should live a very miserable and uncomfortable life; so t...
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. Ver. 16. _But they that escaped of them._] Here w...
_They that escape of them shall escape_ This might be more intelligibly rendered, _There are of them who shall escape;_ that is, “Some few shall have the favour of escaping the common calamity, called...
THE RUIN ACCOMPLISHED...
But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, driven from their natural habitat, far removed from their nests, ALL OF THEM MOURNING, making known t...
16-22 Sooner or later, sin will cause sorrow; and those who will not repent of their sin, may justly be left to pine away in it. There are many whose wealth is their snare and ruin; and the gaining t...
As we read the words they are a prediction, some shall escape, and a promise of some mercy in the escape. But if we read them as we may, And FLEE YE THAT ARE ESCAPED OF THEM, in the imperative, they a...
Ezekiel 7:16 survive H6403 (H8804) escape H6412 mountains H2022 doves H3123 valleys H1516 mourning H1993 (H8802) for
“But those of them who escape, will escape, and will be on the mountains like doves of the valley, all of them mourning, every one in his iniquity.” Inevitably some will escape and flee to the mountai...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 36:31; Ezekiel 6:8; Ezekiel 6:9; Ezra 9:15; Isaiah 1:9;...
Iniquity — Either for the punishment of their iniquity, or for their iniquity itself....