Ezekiel 24:19

‘And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things are to us that you do?” '

The people recognised that what he was doing was symbolic. And they asked what message and significance it had for them.

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Ezekiel 12:9 ; Ezekiel 17:12 ; Ezekiel 20:49 ; Ezekiel 21:7 ; Ezekiel 37:18 ; Malachi 3:13 ; Malachi 3:7 ; Malachi 3:8

¹⁹ And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 24:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 24:19