“ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
Ezekiel 15. The Useless Vine (Jerusalem) is Doomed to Destruction. We have seen some of the reasons why the illusion of the inviolability of Jerusalem was so hard to slay (chs. 12f.). Here we meet...
the LORD . Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4.
The Prophet’s intention is to humble the foolish confidence of the people, who boasted of the gratuitous kindness of God, as if they were naturally excellent: hence, also, their obstinacy again...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, This chapter represents, in the way of a brief introduction, what Ezekiel 16:1-63 details minutely.
Ezekiel's Parable of the Vine Jerusalem and Israel are compared elsewhere in Scripture to a cultivated vine, bearing or expected to bear fruit. Ezekiel's similitude, however, is that of the wild v...
XV. This short chapter contains a single simile and its application, designed to show that Israel, having failed to fulfil the purpose for which they had been chosen, were worthless, and could hav...
This final word on the results of reprobation leads naturally to the part of the prophecy dealing with the reason thereof. This reason is first set forth under two general figures; second, in the for...
CONTENTS The Lord is still by His servant the Prophet preaching to Israel. He here useth similitudes. Under the figure of a vine-tree as unfit for timber, he showeth the unsuitableness of Jerusalem,...
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The destruction of Jerusalem had been represented under various types and similes before, as of a siege, and a sharp razor; and here of a fruitless an...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. And the word of the Lord came unto me. ] This shortest chapter is added to all the foregoing as a corollary. It consisteth of a type or simil...
What is the vine more than any tree? The house of Israel is often compared to a vine, which when fruitful is very profitable and valuable, but when barren is very worthless and contemptible. Of thi...
Jerusalem a Condemned Vine. B. C. 593. 1 And the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 15 . By the unfitness of the vine branch for any work, Ezekiel 15:1-5 , is showed the utter rejection of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 15:6-8 . No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest? Will wood be taken from it to make any work?...
ISRAEL COMPARED TO THE USELESS WOOD OF A WILD VINE (Chap. 15) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In the last chapter the prophet had announced that God would not spare Jerusalem for the sake of the few righteous the...
REFLECTIONS . This chapter follows in connection with the preseding, and demonstrates the failure of the various methods of providence to bring the jews back to the covenant of God; and comes to the...
What is the vine tree more than any tree. The worthless vine doomed for the fire Founding on old similitudes, the prophet assumes that Israel is the vine, and compares it as a tree or as wood w...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 15:2 What is the vine tree, etc.? The prophet's mind had apparently been dwelling, after the close of his previous utterance, on the imagery of earlier writers, in whic...
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 15:1