Ezekiel 11:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. ”

Ezekiel 11:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is not near - In contradiction to Ezekiel 7:2 . Let us build houses - “ To build houses” implies a sense of security. Jeremiah bade the exiles “build houses” in a foreign land because they...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Who say, (a) [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the (b) caldron, and we [are] the flesh. (a) Thus the wicked derided the prophets as though they preached only errors, and therefor...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 11. The Departure of Yahweh. Ezekiel 11:1-13 . Another Guilty Group. The doom has been executed with grim thoroughness, the guilty are all slain ( Ezekiel 11:9 ); it is therefore surpris...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

this city . it (or she), as in verses: Ezekiel 11:7 ; Ezekiel 11:11 .
Ezekiel 11:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet explains what might be obscure through their perverseness. He brings forward, therefore, what the impious thought could be covered by many fallacies. For we know that hypocrite...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. It is not near - That is, the threatened invasion. This city is the caldron, and we be the flesh...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

This city is the caldron— When they say, that doth not yet hang over, or threaten us, that our houses should be the caldron, and we the flesh. Jeremiah, as well as Ezekiel himself, foretold the d...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh. It is not near - namely, the destruction of the city; therefore "let us build houses," as if the...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It is not near; let us build houses. -Neither the text nor the marginal reading of the Authorised Version quite accurately represent the original. The expression is literally not near to build hou...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is remarkable here again in this place, how the Lord taught his servant the Prophet by vision, and though in prison at Babylon, yet in spirit he is led to Jerusalem. Sweet teaching of the Lord, wh...
Ezekiel 11:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which say [it is] not near, let us build houses ,.... Meaning that the destruction of the city was not near, as the prophet had foretold, Ezekiel 7:3 ; and therefore encourage the people to build h...
Ezekiel 11:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh. Ver. 3. Which say, It is not near, ] sc., The evil day is not. The vision that he seeth is f...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Message of Wrath to Jerusalem; Presumption of the Princes; Awakening Predictions. B. C. 593. ...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

What counsel was by these men given appears by their words. It is not near; either the threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans; or else, build, but not in the suburbs, not near, but in the city...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

(4.) THE CALAMITY THREATENED TO JERUSALEM (Chap. Ezekiel 11:1-13 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The movements of the Glory of the Lord are intermitted for a time. During that interval a new condition is enter...
Ezekiel 11:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 prostitu...
Ezekiel 11:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 11:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgment upon the Rulers
Ezekiel 11:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 3:4 ; Amos 6:5 ; Ezekiel 11:7-11 ; Ezekiel 12:22 ; Ezekiel 12:27 ; Ezekiel 24:3-14 ; Ezekiel 7:7 ; Isaiah 5:19 ; Jeremiah 1:11 ; Jeremiah 1:12 ; Jeremiah 1:13
Ezekiel 11:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It — The threatened danger and ruin by the Chaldeans. The caldron — This is an impious scoff, yet mixt with some fear of the prophet, Jeremiah 1:13 .

Ezekiel 11:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 11:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 11:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 11:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 11:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 11:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 11:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 11:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 11:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 11:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 11:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 11:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 11:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 11:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes