“ Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. ”
An only evil - An evil singular and remarkable above all others.
Ezekiel 7. The End is Nigh. Ezekiel 7:1-9 . The visions of doom, so vividly described in the three preceding Chapter s, reach their climax in this chapter, charged with emotion and palpitating w...
If we read אחת , acheth, or אחר, acher, the sense seems to me the same, an evil, another evil is come: that is, one evil is come from another, or one evil is come and an evil: that is...
DISCOURSE: 1097 APPROACHING END OF GOD’S FORBEARANCE Ezekiel 7:5-9 . Thus saith the Lord God: An evil, an only evil, behold, income. An end income; the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold,...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An evil, an only evil - The great, the sovereign, the last exterminating evil, is come: the sword, the pestilence, the famine, and the...
An evil, an only evil, &c.— Behold, calamity shall come after calamity. Houbigant.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. A special calamity, such as was never before, unparalleled. The abruptness of the styl...
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...
An only evil. — That is, an evil so all-embracing as to be complete in itself, and need no repetition. Compare the same thought in Nahum 1:9 , “affliction shall not rise up the second time.” Some...
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,...
The same alarm is here given under another figure, to rouse Israel. The evil come, and the morning arrived, when sentence is to be carried into execution: these are strong intimations to work upon th...
Thus saith the Lord God ,.... Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible: an evil, an only evil, behold, it cometh ; meaning the des...
Thus saith the Lord, An evil, an only evil A sore affliction, a singular and uncommon one. An end is come A destruction, which shall be fatal to a great part of those that go into captivity, as w...
The Desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. 1 Moreover the word of the L ORD came unto me, say...
An evil and sore affliction, one misery enough to ruin the whole, so that there will be no need of another. Or, as the Chaldee paraphrase, one evil after another; and this bespeaks the extreme sadnes...
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “An evil, an only evil, behold it comes. An end is come, the end is come, it awakes against you, behold it comes. Your doom is come to you, O inhabitant of the land, the t...
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...
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 Approaching Ruin
2 Kings 21:12 ; 2 Kings 21:13 ; Amos 3:2 ; Daniel 9:12 ; Ezekiel 5:9 ; Matthew 24:21 ; Nahum 1:9
An evil — An evil and sore affliction, a singular, uncommon one.