“ Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. ”
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...
prophesy... prophesy. Figure of speech Epizeuxis (App-6), for emphasis.
Yesterday we saw that the Jews scurrilously eluded the prophecies of Jeremiah, especially when he threatened them with God’s wrath. For he had said, that a vision was offered to him, in which J...
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy. The repetition marks emphatic earnestness.
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...
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...
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 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...
Therefore prophesy against them ,.... Evil things against them, things that are disagreeable to them; since they flatter themselves with good things, and cry peace and safety, let them know that des...
Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. Ver. 4. Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy. ] Urger et repetit, ne cunctetur. Out of greatest indignation against these pests, he...
Therefore prophesy against them Declare to them how different things shall happen to them from what they expect. And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me See note on Ezekiel 3:24 . And said unto...
Message of Wrath to Jerusalem; Presumption of the Princes; Awakening Predictions. B. C. 593. ...
For this their atheistical temper and words, tell them beforehand what they shall suffer. The charge and command is doubled, both to engage the prophet, and to intimate a doubled misery coming upon t...
‘Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy O son of man.' Ezekiel is to raise his voice against these presumptious ideas for they were the evidence of a complacency not justified by the facts. Judah...
(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 11:2 . 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...
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...
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...
The Judgment upon the Rulers
Ezekiel 20:46 ; Ezekiel 20:47 ; Ezekiel 21:2 ; Ezekiel 25:2 ; Ezekiel 3:17-21 ; Ezekiel 3:2-15 ; Hosea 6:5 ; Hosea 8:1 ; Isaiah 58:1