Ezekiel 15:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I will make the land desolate, because they have committedb a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. ”

Ezekiel 15:8 - 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 15:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

committed. trespass . Figure of speech Polyptoton . App-6. Hebrew "trespassed. trespass" for emphasis. committed. great trespass, as in Ezekiel 14:13 . trespass . Hebrew. ma'al , App-44. sait...
Ezekiel 15:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. They have committed a trespass - They have prevaricated; they are the worst of sinners, and shall have t...
Ezekiel 15:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Because they have committed a trespass— Because they have grievously trespassed. The Vulgate and Chaldee have it, Because they have been prevaricators. "They are not mere sinners," says St. Jer...
Ezekiel 15:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. Because they have committed a trespass - rather, 'they have perversely fallen into perverse rebe...
Ezekiel 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here, as in other parts of the word of God, we find judgment following conviction. The Lord seems to expostulate, as it were, in the same language as by another Prophet: And now, O inhabitants of Jer...
Ezekiel 15:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will make the land desolate ,.... The land of Judea uncultivated, men and beast being cut off; see Ezekiel 14:15 ; because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God ; acted a treac...
Ezekiel 15:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 8. And I will make the land desolate. ] The land itself often suffereth, propter incolarum inem...
Ezekiel 15:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given for fuel That is, as the vine-tree, when barren and fruitless, like the wild trees of the forest, is given for fuel, being fit for...
Ezekiel 15:8 - 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 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Desolate: see Ezekiel 6:14 . A trespass; not one single trespass, but they have been so perpetually trespassing that it seemed a continued act, and all done with greatest aggravation.
Ezekiel 15:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “As the vine trees among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will set my face a...
Ezekiel 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - 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 15:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:14-16 ; Ezekiel 14:13-21 ; Ezekiel 33:29 ; Ezekiel 6:14 ; Isaiah 24:3-12 ; Isaiah 6:11 ; Jeremiah 25:10 ; Jeremiah 25:11 ; Zephaniah 1:18
Ezekiel 15:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Because — They have been so perpetually trespassing, that it seems a continued act.

Ezekiel 15:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 15:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 15:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 15:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 15:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 15:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 15:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 15:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 15:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 15:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 15:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 15:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes