Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 11:25
Then I spoke to them of the (k) captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.
(k) When Jeconiah was led away captive.
Then I spoke to them of the (k) captivity all the things that the LORD had shown me.
(k) When Jeconiah was led away captive.
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...
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...
C. The Conclusion of the Vision 11:22-25 TRANSLATION (22) Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was above them. (23) And the glory of...
Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me. THEN I SPAKE UNTO THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY ALL THE THINGS THAT THE LORD HAD SHOWED ME - literally, 'all the words?'...
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:...
וָ אֲדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל ־הַ גֹּולָ֑ה אֵ֛ת כָּל
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...
What a peculiar situation of divine favor Ezekiel was in, when thus sent by the Lord on his ministry. When he had finished his vision at Jerusalem, he is brought back by vision again to the place from...
REFLECTIONS I WOULD beg the Reader to pause over this Chapter, and behold the Prophet in his faithfulness, and the people in their folly. With what earnestness the whole events which were brought befo...
Afterwards he says, _that he spoke all those words to the captives, _or exiles. This passage seems superfluous. For to what purpose had the Prophet been taught concerning the destruction of the city,...
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...
THEN I SPAKE UNTO THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY,.... The elders of Judah, and others with them, at Telabib, where the prophet had a house: ALL THE THINGS THE LORD HAD SHOWED ME; all the visions contained in...
Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me. Ver. 25. _Then I spake unto them of the captivity._] These were his proper charge, and now God's chiefest care. To...
_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 m...
THE PROMISE TO SAVE A REMNANT...
Then I spake unto them of the captivity, for whom this message was really intended, ALL THE THINGS THAT THE LORD HAD SHOWED ME. It was in itself no easy task to proclaim these facts to the exiles, but...
22-25 Here is the departure of God's presence from the city and temple. It was from the Mount of Olives that the vision went up, typifying the ascension of Christ to heaven from that very mountain. Th...
When the ecstasy was past, I SPAKE UNTO THEM; either the elders who came to him, EZEKIEL 8:1, or to the body of the people, who were in those parts where Ezekiel was; for many were scattered into othe...
Ezekiel 11:25 spoke H1696 (H8762) captivity H1473 things H1697 LORD H3068 shown H7200 (H8689)...
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...
_Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me._ BABYLON WITH GOD BETTER THAN JERUSALEM WITHOUT HIM He told them of the great wickedness he had seen at Jerusalem,...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:22 The vision concludes on a tragic note. God leaves his city, which means divine absence and thus death for the people. The MOUNTAIN... ON THE EAST is the Mount of Olives....
(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...
Ezekiel 2:7; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 3:27; Ezekiel 3:4...