Ezekiel 6:7

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD - and not your idols, lords. Ye shall know me as the all-powerful YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD - and not your idols, lords. Ye shall know me as the all-powerful Punisher of sin....

Here the Prophet adds a small clause to his former threats, namely, that God would so consume the whole people with slaughter, that they would be compelled to acknowledge him as Jehovah. _The slain, _therefore_, shall fall in the midst of thee, _that is, the enemy shall arise who shall cause slaughter everywhere through the midst of the land. As to the phrase,_I am Jehovah, _it refers to the prophecy; for the Israelites did not openly deny God, but because they had no faith in the words of the Prophet, hence God appears and confirms and establishes the authority of the prophetic teaching, when he shows that an avenger was at hand if it was despised, as we know it was despised; and this he will soon explain a little more clearly. It follows now —...

The force of the words is, “When the slain shall fall in the midst of you, then at last ye shall know that I am the Lord.” So in Ezekiel 6:10 where the knowledge implies a recognition of the merciful intent of Yahweh’s dispensations, and therefore, a hope of restoration....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 6:2, EZEKIEL 6:3 SET THY FACE TOWARD THE MOUNTAINS, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, in Ezekiel 4:3. It will meet us again in Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 25:2; Ezekiel 28:21;...

AND THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE MIDST OF YOU,.... The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some principal person that should be slain; but, as King Zedekiah was not slain when the city was taken, only his sons and his princes, it seems best to understand it of the multitude that were slain in the midst of the land, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea; and denotes how general and public the destruction would be: AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I [AM] THE LORD; the only true God, and Governor of the world; who only is to be worshipped, feared, and served, and not idols....

Ezekiel 6:1. The mountains of Israel are mentioned first, because they were the places where the people practiced idolatry; they were the high places so often mentioned in the historical books. (Read Leviticus 26:30 .) Hundreds of years before, Moses wrote these words; and now they were all to be fulfilled. But the Lord also promised that a remnant should be left. That remnant would acknowledge the evil they had done. “They shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.” The words “because I am broken with their whorish heart” means literally translated, “When I shall have broken their whorish heart which has departed from Me.” No judgment which has ever come upon Israel made a complete end of the nation. A remnant always remained and returned to the Lord. (See...

EZEKIEL 6. THE DOOM OF THE SINFUL MOUNTAINS. Ezekiel 6:1. Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced, or rather the mountains, partly because the mountains were the conspicuous and characteristic feature of Canaan: but more especially because from time immemorial the high places upon them had been the seat of idolatry. The Hebrews had taken them over from the Canaanites, and with them many elements of the idolatrous worship practised within them. Thirty years before a desperate effort, based upon the newly-discovered book of Deuteronomy, had been made by Josiah to abolish these sanctuaries; but such a passage as this shows us that they still persisted. The words high places, which primarily denoted sanctuaries on heights (_e.g._ of hills), came to denote sanctuaries in general, and so are applied her

THE SLAIN. a slain one. YE SHALL KNOW THAT AM THE LORD, This formula occurs twenty-one times in Ezekiel: five times at the beginning of. verse (Ezekiel 6:13; Ezekiel 11:12; Ezekiel 20:42; Ezekiel 20:44; Ezekiel 37:13); five times in the middle of. verse (7, 9; Ezekiel 15:7; Ezekiel 17:21;...

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 own house, and abandon for a time his public ministry. (2) Ch. Ezekiel 4:1-4. A series of symbols representing the siege of Jerusalem, the scarcity during it, the pollution of the people in exile among the nations, and the terrible fate of the inhabitants on the capture of the city. (3) Ch. Ezekiel 5:5-17. Exposition of these s

II. DISOBEDIENCE AND DESOLATION 6:1-14 In his second discourse Ezekiel zeroes in on the places of idolatrous worship which were located in the mountains and valleys of Judah. These pagan sanctuaries, once known for their shady trees, would become desolate. There is throughout this chapter a frequent change from _their_ to _your,_ and from _your_ to _their,_ when the same persons are spoken of. This is quite in the manner of Ezekiel. The sermon contains three points of emphasis (1) a dire prediction (Ezekiel 6:1-7); (2) a confident expectation (Ezekiel 6:8-10); and (3) a distressing lamentation (Ezekiel 6:11-14). A Dire Prediction 6:1-7 TRANSLATION (1) And the word