“ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
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...
Here God seems to rebuke the thoughtlessness of his servant, or rather the error of the people, because we said that the Prophet announced not what he privately thought, but what was commonly r...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
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 anot...
Again the word. — This does not mark the beginning of a separate prophecy, but only the Divine answer to the prophet’s intercession. This answer differs entirely from the denunciations that have go...
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE Ezekiel 8:1-18 ; Ezekiel 9:1-11 ; Ezekiel 10:1-22 ; Ezekiel 11:1-25 ONE of the most instructive phases of religious belief among the Israelites of the se...
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 th...
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 pr...
It should seem, that this is not only a new sermon, but delivered at a different period from the former, though the interval was not perhaps long. And it is a very sweet and gracious sermon, and full...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying ,.... In answer to his prayer. The Targum calls it, "the word of prophecy from the Lord;'' this was by way of comfort to the captives in Babylon, as...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 14. Again the word of the Lord came unto me. ] In answer to my prayer, though there was something in it of unbelief and human frailty. See Ps...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me A seasonable word, to stop the mouths of the insulting Jerusalemites, and to encourage the captives at Babylon. Son of man, thy brethren The men of thy kind...
Judgments Predicted; Sufferings and Hopes of Pious Captives. B. C. 593. 14 Again the w...
It was a seasonable word to stop the mouths of the insulting Jerusalemites, and to encourage the captives at Babylon.
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “Son of man. Your brothers, even your brothers, the men related by blood (kindred) to you, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the i...
(5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION ( Ezekiel 11:14-25 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 11:14-21 . Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the...
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...
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 ( E...
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,