Ezekiel 6:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, ”

• Ezekiel 6:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Ezekiel 6. The Doom of the Sinful Mountains. Ezekiel 6:1-7 . Not only, however, was Jerusalem steeped in sin, but the whole land; therefore the whole land is here addressed and denounced, or rat...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Son of man . See note on Ezekiel 2:1 . the mountains . Specially defiled by the high places. Compare Ezekiel 6:13 .

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel - This is a new prophecy, and was most probably given after the four hu...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Of Israel— "Israel being carried captive, Judah is called Israel; and perhaps possessed a great part of the country." Secker.

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, Set thy face toward ... mountains of Israel - i:e., of Palestine in general. The mountains are addressed by...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Guilt (or Trespass) Offering. Two cases are mentioned in which it is proper to bring a guilt offering. The first ( Leviticus 5:15 ) is that of a person who occasions loss to the sanctuary by eit...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Toward the mountains of Israel. — It is not uncommon to address prophetic utterances to inanimate objects as a poetic way of representing the people. (Comp. Ezekiel 36:1 ; Micah 6:2 , &c.) Th...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  These signs were followed by denunciations growing naturally out of what they had taught. In general terms, the prophet first foretold the coming judgment of the sword against the whole land, and the...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  By the mountains of Israel, is meant the higher order of the people of Israel; such as exalted themselves above their fellows, and perhaps prided themselves in being exempt from popular fear and appr...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel ,.... Or cities of Israel, the inhabitants of them; not the ten tribes, for they had been carried captive long before this time, even in the...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, Ver. 2. Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, ] i.e., The Jews, who are haughty, and hard as mountains...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Set thy face toward the mountains of Israel Turn thy face to that part where Judea is situated. Judea was a hilly country; therefore that whole land is expressed here and elsewhere by the mountain...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Destruction of Idolatry. B. C. 594.       1 And the word of the L ORD came unto me, sayin...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Son of man; see Ezekiel 2:1 ; put thyself towards the mountains, in a posture of one who is going to speak, look toward them; hereby (as Isaiah did, Isa 12 ) upbraiding the deafness of the Jews...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them, and say, ‘You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, Thus...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  4. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS AS TO THE CONSEQUENCES OF ISRAEL’S CONDUCT (Chap. 6) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— The judgment on places of idolatry and the worshippers ( Ezekiel 6:1-7 ). After asserting, in Ezekie...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 6:3 . I will destroy your high places, all the necessaries of idolatry. במות bomoth, Βουνοι, thence Βωμοι. Your high altars. In Montfaucon's Antiquities we have various views of heathe...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I, even I, will bring a sword upon you. The character of God Taking Chapter s 6 and 7 as revealing the character of God, in how awful a light is the Divine Being made to appear! How infinite, f...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Ezekiel 6:2 , Ezekiel 6:3 Set thy face toward the mountains, etc. The formula is eminently characteristic of Ezekiel. We have had it with a different verb in the Hebrew, i...

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Desolation of the Land and the Slaughter of the Idolaters

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 6:1

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• Ezekiel 6:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The mountains — The inhabitants of the mountains, who were secure in their fastnesses.

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