Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
This burden - i:e., weighty oracle х masaa' (H4853)].
Concerneth the prince. The very man Zedekiah in whom they trust for safety is to be the chief sufferer Concerneth the prince. The very man Zedekiah, in whom they trust for safety, is to be the chief sufferer. Josephus ('Antiquities,' 10: 7) reports that Ezekiel sent a copy of this prophecy to Zedekiah. As Jeremiah had sent a letter to the captives at the Chebar, which was the means of calling forth at first the agency of Ezekiel, so it was natural for Ezekiel to send a message to Jerusalem confirming the warnings of Jeremiah. The prince, however-fancying a contradiction between Ezekiel 12:13, "I will bring him to Babylon," and "yet shall he not see Babylon" (cf. also Jeremiah 24:8-9, declaring he should be carried to Babylon) - believed neither. Seeming discrepancies in Scripture on deeper search prove to be hidden harmonies.