Ezekiel 20:49

Parables — So absolutely, that we cannot understand him.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This paragraph is in the Hebrew text, Septuagint and Vulgate the beginning of Ezekiel 21 to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy delivered...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak (z) parables? (z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32 . The Terrible Sword of Nebuchadrezzar. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

parables. Thus intended to have the same purpose as the Lord's parables. See Matthew 13:11 .
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1110 MEN’S TREATMENT OF THE GOSPEL Ezekiel 20:49 . Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? THE word o...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ah Lord God - O my God, consider my situation; who will believe what I shall sa...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Doth he not speak parables?— Though these prophesies were clear enough, if they would have given themselves the trouble to have considered and comp...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me. An introductory brief description, in enigma,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 5. A Final series of Prophecies on the necessity of Israel's Punishment and the Destruction of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 20-24) Date, Aug.-Sept. 590 b....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Sword of the Lord against Jerusalem (and Ammon?) Ezekiel 21 of the Hebrew Bible begins with Ezekiel 20:45 of the English. It is mainly con...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Doth he not speak parables? — Or enigmas — things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did designedly, as he had done in other cases, to awa...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

JEHOVAH'S CONTROVERSY WITH ISRAEL Ezekiel 20:1-49 BY far the hardest trial of Ezekiel's faith must have been the conduct of his fellow-exiles....
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the sev...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This seems a new discourse, or, if it be not, it is only as a postscript to a letter. The former was delivered concerning the Church in Babylon, and...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS READER! what an awful account is here given, and by the Lord Himself, of a congregation of worshippers. Are there any such in the presen...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said I, ah Lord God !.... The Septuagint version is, "by no means, Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such an errand; at least, let it...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ver. 49. Doth he not speak parables? ] Nonne artifex est parabolarum iste?...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moreover, the word of the Lord , &c. Here we have a new prophecy, with which Houbigant, following many learned commentators, begins the xxist ch...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgment and Mercy. B. C. 592. 45 Mo...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When the prophet had done his duty, and prophesied, and they should have heard and understood, he returns with a complaint of their quarrelling, cens...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Then said I, “Ah, Lord Yahweh, they say of me, is he not one who tells stories (or ‘a riddler of riddles')?” ' Here we have a very human touch. In...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

( Ezekiel 20:45-49 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES. The destruction of Jerusalem under the image of a forest devoured by fire. A comparison of these verses with...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 20:49 Nothing is more disheartening, if we must believe it to be true, than the language in which some persons talk of the difficulties of...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 20:1 . The elders of Israel came to enquire of the Lord, and sat before me. They still respected the divine καρισματα, or holy anointing o...
The Biblical Illustrator

Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables. Mystery and dogma in religion There is a tone of remonstrance and expostulation in the...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 20:1 A new date is given, and includes what follows to Ezekiel 23:49 . The last note of time was in Ezekiel 8:1 , and...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Picture of the Forest Fire
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said I, Ah, Lord God! They say of me, Doth he not speak parables? Ezekiel thus complaining that his countrymen could not understand this form of...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 17:18 ; John 16:25 ; Matthew 13:13 ; Matthew 13:14

⁴⁹ Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 20:49

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 20:49