“ Destructiong cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. ”
In the dread day of the siege, when ruthless Babylonian hands would profane Yahweh's secret (or rather cherished) place, i.e. the Temple, famine would reign, and then not all their silver and gol...
Destruction : or, Cutting off.
He confirms the same doctrine. He says therefore, destruction is come He now adds, there shall be no peace This confirmation was not in vain. For men always hope they shall obtain some ad...
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. They shall seek peace - They see now that their ceasing to pay the tribute to the king of Babylon has brought the Chaldeans a...
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. They shall seek peace, and there shall be none - ( 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ).
The Desolation of the Land of Israel This is a final message of doom upon the whole land ( Ezekiel 7:2 ). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close a...
Destruction cometh. — This is another of the peculiar words occurring only in this chapter. It is generally explained of the dismay and horror accompanying great judgments, and vividly described by...
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...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on,...
I include the whole under one reading for the sake of shortness. In these verses is contained, the effect which must always follow God's judgment. No rank, no state, no condition of man is exempt. Wh...
Destruction cometh ,.... Upon the temple, city, nation, and people; the king of Babylon, the destroyer of the Gentiles, and now of the Jews, being on his way, Jeremiah 4:7 ; and they shall seek p...
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and [there shall be] none. Ver. 25. Destruction cometh. ] Not εξιλασμος ηκει, Mercy shall come, as the Septuagint ill render it, but utter excision,...
Destruction cometh Such as a provoked power makes when it cuts off all, root and branch. And they shall seek peace By inquiring of the prophets; or rather, by suing to Nebuchadnezzar, whom, after...
The Desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. 23 Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody c...
Destruction; such as an angry, provoked power makes when it cuts off all root and branch. They shall seek peace; either by inquiring of prophets; or rather, suing to Nebuchadnezzar, whom, after s...
“For this reason I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they will possess their houses. And I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, and their holy places will be profaned. Destruction...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been alrea...
Ezekiel 7:2 . An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they...
Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. Destruction instead of peace I remember hearing Dr. James Spurgeon, in the course of a sermon preached at the Metropolita...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the...
The Ruin Accomplished
Isaiah 57:21 ; Isaiah 59:8-12 ; Jeremiah 8:15 ; Jeremiah 8:16 ; Lamentations 4:17 ; Lamentations 4:18 ; Micah 1:12