Ezekiel 15:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, when it was whole, it was meeta for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? ”

Ezekiel 15:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?
Ezekiel 15:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? Behold, when it was whole, it was meet f...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The figure of a vine-tree is most happily chosen to describe what the Lord meant to teach the Prophet concerning Jerusalem. The vine in its flourishing state is the most luxuriant and prolific perhap...
Ezekiel 15:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, when it was whole it was meet for no work ,.... Before it was cut into pieces, and east into the fire, it was not fit to make so much as a pin of to hang anything on; so Israel, when all tog...
Ezekiel 15:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for [any] work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned? Ver. 5. Behold, when it was whole. ] The Je...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jerusalem a Condemned Vine. B. C. 593. 1 And the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Ezekiel 15:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Behold when it was whole it was not made into any work, how much less when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, will it yet be made into any work.” Once it is burned it is even more useless...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Ezekiel 15:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vine-Tree Fit for Burning Only. As little as the Lord, for the sake of a handful of righteous people, will spare Jerusalem, so little can a preference of Israel before other nations be alleged...
Ezekiel 15:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Ezekiel 15:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 15:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 15:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 15:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 15:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 15:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 15:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 15:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 15:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 15:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge