Ezekiel 11:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This city, Jerusalem, though it suffered unparalleled hardships, shall not be your caldron; shall not be the place of your sufferings; greater are reserved for you, you shall be tortured in a strange land. I will judge you; do more against you, as at Riblah, 2 Kings 25:6,7, where the captive king had his children and others with them first murdered before his eyes, and then his own eyes put out; and Riblah is called here the border of Israel, for that Syria was adjoining to Israel on the north, and Riblah or Antioch was a pleasant city towards the frontiers of Syria, upon the river Orontes, which arising in Antilibanus runs through part of Syria, and for the delicacy of the seats it had many cities built on it. And here Nebuchadnezzar in his royal state, and amidst the pleasures of the place, expects the issue of the siege.

Ezekiel 11:11

11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: