“ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
As in Ezekiel 7 , the nearness of the judgment is foretold. Ezekiel 12:22 The land of Israel - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exil...
Disregard of the True Prophets. One reason for ignoring the stern message of Ezekiel is suggested by the popular saying that the days keep stretching out but the doom is never fulfilled, so that th...
Here God inveighs against that gross ridicule which prevailed everywhere among the Jews. For when the Prophets had been threatening them so long, this their earnestness was so far from leading...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And the word, &c.— The latter part of the 22nd verse is spoken in the person of infidels, who turn the grace of God into wantonness, taking encouragement from his patience and long-suffering to...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
§ 4. Further Prophecies of Israel's Guilt and approaching Punishment (Ezekiel 12-19) This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-Septemb...
(21-28) These verses contain two distinct messages from the Lord ( Ezekiel 12:21-28 ), both designed to meet the objection that warning prophecies had been uttered now for a long time, and as they ha...
PROPHECY AND ITS ABUSES Ezekiel 12:21 - Ezekiel 14:11 THERE is perhaps nothing more perplexing to the student of Old Testament history than the complicated phenomena which may be classed unde...
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...
Here is a third sermon of the Prophet; and it is to the same purport as the former. It should seem, that it was become almost proverbial, if judgments did not immediately follow the commission of sin...
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. After he had been a sign unto the people, in the two instances above mentioned; and they had hardened themselves against the belief of the things sign...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 21. And the word of the Lord. ] See Ezekiel 12:1 .
Message from God to the People; Impious and Deceitful Hopes. B. C. 593. 21 And the wor...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘Time goes by, and every vision dies'. The proverb is literally, ‘The days,...
(3.) THE FOOLISH PROVERB ( Ezekiel 12:21-28 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The hearts of the Jerusalem people would evade any fair application of the ominous action of Ezekiel, and he is incited to aim a blow...
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...
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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