CONTENTS
The Prophet is still on the subject of the visions of God. A striking judgment is recorded of the immediate effects of Ezekiel's preaching. The Lord gives also many exceeding great and precious promises before the close of the Chapter.
CHAPTER XI _This chapter denounces the judgments of God against those_ _wicked persons who remained in Jerusalem and made a mock of_ _the types and predictions of the prophets_, 1-13; _compare_ Ez...
THE GATE - The gate of the templecourt. The gate was the place of judgment. FIVE AND TWENTY MEN - Not the same men as in Ezekiel 8:16. There they were representatives of the “priests,” here of the “pr...
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...
EZEKIEL 11. THE DEPARTURE OF YAHWEH. Ezekiel 11:1. Another Guilty Group. The doom has been executed with grim thoroughness, the guilty are all slain (Ezekiel 11:9); it is therefore surprising to come...
SPIRIT. As in Ezekiel 2:2. Hebrew. _ruach,_ App-9. See note on Ezekiel 8:3. THE EAST GATE. Compare Ezekiel 43:1. THE LORD'S. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ s. App-4. DOOR. entrance. five and twen
The men that plot evil 1. The gate referred to is the outer eastern gate; the position taken up by the cherubim and glory was outside the temple precincts wholly. Jaazaniah and Pelatiah are named "pri...
FIVE AND TWENTY MEN— The same who are represented in chap. Ezekiel 8:16 as worshipping the sun. They were _princes of the people;_ that is to say, most probably members of the great Sanhedrim. Compare...
A. The Jerusalem Leaders Denounced 11:1-13 TRANSLATION (1) And a spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the eastern gate of the house of the LORD, the one that faces east, and behold, in the entran...
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...
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the...
THE EAST GATE] the outer eastern gate, to which the chariot with the 'glory' upon it had already moved. AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE] just outside the Temple precincts. JAAZANIAH.. AND PELATIAH] men of who...
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:...
BROUGHT ME UNTO THE EAST GATE OF THE LORD’S HOUSE. — This is the same place, the main outer entrance to the whole Temple enclosure, to which the prophet had seen the cherubim go (Ezekiel 10:19). It is...
וַ תִּשָּׂ֨א אֹתִ֜י ר֗וּחַ וַ תָּבֵ֣א אֹ֠תִי
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 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...
_Me. The prophet in Chaldea, saw in spirit what was doing at Jerusalem. (Worthington) --- Men. Magistrates. (Prado.) (Tirinus) (Menochius) --- Jezonias, perhaps mentioned [in] chap. viii. 11. (Calmet)...
Here the Prophet admonishes the people that perverse leaders would be the cause of their destruction. For if the blind lead the blind both will fall into the ditch (Matthew 15:14; Luke 6:39.) Since, t...
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...
MOREOVER, THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP,.... From the inner court of the temple, where the prophet was, according to the last account of him, Ezekiel 8:16; it was the same Spirit that took him by the lock o...
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the...
_Moreover the spirit lifted me up_ It seems it should rather have been rendered, _And the spirit had lifted me up_, for here he appears to go back to speak about those twenty-five men of whom he made...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE RULERS...
Moreover, the Spirit lifted me up and brought me unto the East Gate of the Lord's house, which looketh eastward, where the entire vision had been placed, 10:19; AND BEHOLD AT THE DOOR OF THE GATE, the...
1-13 Where Satan cannot persuade men to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as at a distance. These wretched rulers dare to say, We are...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 11 Ezekiel is showed the presumption of the princes of Judah, EZEKIEL 11:1. He declareth their sin, and the manner of their punishment, EZEKIEL 11:4. He is terrified at the sudden deat...
Ezekiel 11:1 Spirit H7307 up H5375 (H8799) brought H935 (H8686) East H6931 Gate H8179 LORDS H3068 house...
‘Moreover the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward. And behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men. And I saw in the midst of them Jaazan...
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...
_Prophesy against them._ EVIL IN HIGH PLACES The spirit told Ezekiel that the princes were the men that devised mischief and gave wicked counsels to the city. How often have we seen this prostitution...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 11:1 Ezekiel sees 25 men—a different group from Ezekiel 8:16, and at a different location. Unlike the previous group, the problem here is not with worship but with politics, al
(4.) THE CALAMITY THREATENED TO JERUSALEM (Chap. Ezekiel 11:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The movements of the Glory of the Lord are intermitted for a time. During that interval a new condition is entered into...
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...
1 Kings 18:12; 2 Corinthians 12:1; 2 Kings 2:16; 2 Kings 25:23;...
Jaazaniah — Not him that is mentioned Ezekiel 8:11. Pelatiah — Named here for that dreadful sudden death, whereby he became a warning to others....