Ezekiel 12:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I will leave a fewd men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD. ”

• Ezekiel 12:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Few - literally, as in the margin; so few, that they can easily be counted Isaiah 10:19 . The few who should escape destruction should make known to all among whom they should dwell how great ha...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But I will leave a (e) few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know th...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezekiel 12. Exile Foreshadowed. Ezekiel 12:1-16 . Flight from the Beleaguered City. Ezekiel's message of doom has surely been made plain enough, but the rebellious house will not listen; for one...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  they shall know. See note on Ezekiel 6:10 . I shall scatter them. Ref to Pent, ( Leviticus 26:33 . Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Deuteronomy 28:64 ). App-92.

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Some think that God here speaks of the faithful, whom he had determined to preserve in the very midst of death. And certainly there is some mitigation of his former vengeance. But it is not in...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Symbols of Exile, Flight, and Famine Ezekiel's audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representat...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  May declare all their abominations. — This they were to do, that the false impression that God was unable to protect His people might be removed from the minds of the heathen, and the truth that He...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The prophet was next commanded to act in the sight of the people as an exile going forth from his country, preparing "stuff for removing," and carrying it forth from place to place. He obeyed the com...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is very proper for the Reader to remark what the Lord so often repeats to his servant the Prophet concerning his people, that they are a rebellious house. For this consideration will help the Read...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But I will leave a few men of them ,.... Or, "men of number" x; of a small number, such as are easily reckoned up; which will require no great skill in numbers, nor trouble to count them: from the...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hath not the house of Israel said That is, I know they have said; as the words, “are they not written in the book of Chronicles, &c.?” mean, they are written there. What doest thou , &c. T...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Zedekiah's Captivity Foretold. B. C. 593.       1 The word of the L ORD also came unto me, sa...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But I will restrain the rage of the Chaldeans, and move them to some compassion towards some of the Jews, so that some, yet but few, shall remain; the sword shall not slay them, for 1 commission it...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “And I will scatter towards every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, and I will draw out the sword after them. And they will know that I am Yahweh, when I will disperse...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  2. FULLER DETAILS RELATING TO THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PUNISHMENT (Chaps. 12–19) Intercourse with their countrymen in Jerusalem deeply affected the views and hopes of the exiled Jews, as the...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 12:3 . Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing. Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 12:1 The word of the Lord, etc. This formula, so familiar in Isaiah and Jeremiah, appears for the first time in Ezekiel, but occurs repeatedly afterwards, especially in...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sign of the Kings Departue

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 9:6-9 ; Amos 9:8 ; Amos 9:9 ; Daniel 9:5-12 ; Deuteronomy 29:24-28 ; Ezekiel 14:22 ; Ezekiel 14:23 ; Ezekiel 36:31 ; Ezekiel 6:8-10 ; Genesis 13:16 ; Isaiah 1:9 ; Isaiah 10:19 ;...

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• Ezekiel 12:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Declare — By relating those sins, for which God was justly angry, and for which he punished them, though they were his own people. Thy — The Chaldeans. See how God brings good out of evil! The disp...

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