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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Ezekiel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 319,055 words · 620 reading sections
Ezekiel 5:9
Ezekiel 5:9 Ver. 9. And I will do in thee that which I have not done,.... In any other nation, or to any other people; not in the old world, when the flood was brought upon the world of the ungodly; not in Sodom and Gomorrah, when they were destroyed by fire from heaven; not in Egypt, when he inflicted his plagues on …
172 wordsSECTION 62Ezekiel 5:10
Ezekiel 5:10 Ver. 10. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee,.... Which was long ago threatened by the Lord, and prophesied of by Moses, Le 26:27; and was fulfilled at several times in the people of Israel, as at the siege of Samaria, 2Ki 6:28; at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, La 4:1…
255 wordsSECTION 63Ezekiel 5:11
Ezekiel 5:11 Ver. 11. Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord God,.... This is a form of an oath, and shows that what is after said should certainly be done; God would not repent of it, nor revoke it: surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary, with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations: that …
212 wordsSECTION 64Ezekiel 5:12
Ezekiel 5:12 Ver. 12. A third part of them shall die with the pestilence,.... This, with what follows, explains the division of the hair into the three parts, and what was done with them; and shows that the burning of one third part denotes their being destroyed by the pestilence, mentioned along with burning coals, H…
297 wordsSECTION 65Ezekiel 5:13
Ezekiel 5:13 Ver. 13. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished,.... Finished, perfected, consummated, by bringing the above judgments upon them, pestilence, famine, and sword, and by scattering them to every wind: what had been threatened long, and only some drops of it were let fall in times past, now was poured forth t…
868 wordsSECTION 66Ezekiel 6:1
Ezekiel 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 6 This chapter contains a prophecy of the desolation of the whole land of Israel, and a promise that a remnant should escape, with a lamentation for the sad destruction, signified by some gestures of the prophet. The order to the prophet to deliver out the prophecy is in Eze 6:1; t…
320 wordsSECTION 67Ezekiel 6:2
Ezekiel 6:2 Ver. 2. Son of man, set thy face towards the mountains of Israel,.... Or cities of Israel, the inhabitants of them; not the ten tribes, for they had been carried captive long before this time, even in the times of Hezekiah; unless it can be thought that this prophecy is designed to show the reason of their…
269 wordsSECTION 68Ezekiel 6:3
Ezekiel 6:3 Ver. 3. And say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God,.... Since the people of the Jews would not hear the word of the Lord, the mountains are called upon to hear it; unless the inhabitants of the mountains are meant: thus saith the Lord God to the mountains and to the hills, to the river…
201 wordsSECTION 69Ezekiel 6:4
Ezekiel 6:4 Ver. 4. And your altars shall be desolate,.... Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be none to attend them: and your images shall be broken; the "images of the sun" {b}. The word for images has its derivation from heat; and were so called, either fr…
171 wordsSECTION 70Ezekiel 6:5
Ezekiel 6:5 Ver. 5. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars: which were reckoned a pollution of them; see 2Ki 23:14.…
49 wordsSECTION 71Ezekiel 6:6
Ezekiel 6:6 Ver. 6. In all your dwelling places your cities shall be laid waste,.... Which denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as is said in Jer 2:28; and the high places shall be desolate; meaning such as were in cities; as, be…
166 wordsSECTION 72Ezekiel 6:7
Ezekiel 6:7 Ver. 7. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you,.... The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some principal person that should be slain; but, as King Zedekiah was not slain when the city was taken, onl…
135 wordsSECTION 73Ezekiel 6:8
Ezekiel 6:8 Ver. 8. Yet will I leave a remnant,.... Not in Judea, but in Babylon, and in the countries where they should be dispersed, as follows: that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations; which was threatened to be drawn, and sent after them, Eze 5:2; but all should not perish by if; som…
110 wordsSECTION 74Ezekiel 6:9
Ezekiel 6:9 Ver. 9. And they that escape of you shall remember me,.... Either my grace and mercy to them, as Jarchi; or the fear of me, as the Targum; and so return by repentance, and worship the Lord their God, being influenced by his kindness and goodness to them: even when among the nations, whither they shall be …
330 wordsSECTION 75Ezekiel 6:10
Ezekiel 6:10 Ver. 10. And they shall know that I [am] the Lord,.... As in Eze 6:7; [and that] I have not said in vain; either within himself, in his own purposes and decrees; so the Targum, "I have not in vain decreed in my word;'' or by the mouth of the prophets: that I would do this evil unto them; in carrying t…
89 wordsSECTION 76Ezekiel 6:11
Ezekiel 6:11 Ver. 11. Thus saith the Lord God, smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot,.... These are gestures of persons in distress and agony, who, to show their trouble and grief, smite one hand against the other; or smite with the hand upon the thigh, as in Jer 31:19; and "stretch out", or "make a distensio…
246 wordsSECTION 77Ezekiel 6:12
Ezekiel 6:12 Ver. 12. He that is far off shall die of the pestilence,.... That flies from the enemy into the wilderness, or into other countries, thinking himself safe there, the plague shall seize him, and he shall die of that; there is no fleeing from God, and escaping his hand; when he resolves to punish for sin, h…
212 wordsSECTION 78Ezekiel 6:13
Ezekiel 6:13 Ver. 13. Then shall ye know that I [am] the Lord,.... Whom they had denied, by serving other gods; but now by those punishments their eyes would be opened to see, and be obliged to acknowledge, that there was no God but the Lord: when their slain [men] shall be among their idols round about their altars;…
245 wordsSECTION 79Ezekiel 6:14
Ezekiel 6:14 Ver. 14. So will I stretch out mine hand upon them,.... Not unto them, in a way of mercy; but upon, or against them, in a way of judgment. The Targum paraphrases it, "and I will lift up the stroke of my power upon them;'' his mighty hand of vengeance: and make the land desolate; by destroying the inhab…
370 wordsSECTION 80Ezekiel 7:1
Ezekiel 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 7 This chapter contains a prophecy of the speedy destruction of the Jews, as being just at hand; of the particular judgments that should come upon them; of the horror that should seize them, and the distress that all ranks of men among them should be in, a few only escaping, who ar…
317 wordsSECTION 81Ezekiel 7:2
Ezekiel 7:2 Ver. 2. Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel,.... The inhabitants of it; not the ten tribes, who were already carried captive; but the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and those that were with them, who dwelt in the land. The mountains, hills, rivers, and valleys, were be…
270 wordsSECTION 82Ezekiel 7:3
Ezekiel 7:3 Ver. 3. Now [is] the end [come] upon thee,.... This is repeated for the confirmation of it, and for the sake of application of it to the people of Israel, of whom he had before spoken in the third person; but now in the second, in order to arouse them, and excite attention: and I will send mine anger upon…
154 wordsSECTION 83Ezekiel 7:4
Ezekiel 7:4 Ver. 4. And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity,.... Though the punishment will be heavy, and the lamentation will be great; see Eze 5:11; but I will recompense thy ways upon thee; the evil of punishment for the evil of sin, the righteous demerit of their actions: and thine abominatio…
126 wordsSECTION 84Ezekiel 7:5
Ezekiel 7:5 Ver. 5. 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 destruction of the city and temple; which, though but one, was such an one as was never known before nor wa…
106 wordsSECTION 85Ezekiel 7:6
Ezekiel 7:6 Ver. 6. An end is come, the end is come,.... These words, so often repeated, show the eagerness and concern of the prophet's mind; the speed and haste destruction was making; and the great stupidity of the people, which required such a frequent repetition: it watcheth for thee; that is, their damnation sl…
110 wordsSECTION 86Ezekiel 7:7
Ezekiel 7:7 Ver. 7. The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land,.... That is, early ruin was come, or was coming, upon the inhabitants of Judea, which before is said to be awake, and to watch for them; and now the day being broke, the morning come, it hastened to them. Some, because this word {g} i…
308 wordsSECTION 87Ezekiel 7:8
Ezekiel 7:8 Ver. 8. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee,.... It might be very well said to be shortly, or near at hand, that the Lord would bring down his judgments upon this people; since it was some time in the sixth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity that this prophecy was delivered; and it was in the ni…
169 wordsSECTION 88Ezekiel 7:9
Ezekiel 7:9 Ver. 9. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity,.... This verse is the same with Eze 7:4; only instead of "I will recompense thy ways upon thee", here it is, I will recompense thee according to thy ways upon thee and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of thee; which have both the sa…
157 wordsSECTION 89Ezekiel 7:10
Ezekiel 7:10 Ver. 10. Behold the day, behold, it is come,.... That is, the day of trouble and distress, said to be near, Eze 7:3; the morning is gone forth; See Gill on "Eze 7:7"; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded; both these phrases may be understood of Nebuchadnezzar; he was the rod, with which the Lord sm…
181 wordsSECTION 90Ezekiel 7:11
Ezekiel 7:11 Ver. 11. Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness,.... Some understand this of the Chaldeans, who came with great violence against the Jews, and were a rod in the hand of the Lord, to scourge them for their wickedness; and this seems to be the sense of the Targum, "spoilers are risen up to visit the…
252 wordsSECTION 91Ezekiel 7:12
Ezekiel 7:12 Ver. 12. The time is come, the day draweth near,.... According to the Targum, the time of the recompence of iniquities, and the day of punishment of sins; of the sins of the Jews, by the Chaldean army, which no doubt is true; but it seems chiefly to refer to what follows: and the sense is, the time was co…
240 wordsSECTION 92Ezekiel 7:13
Ezekiel 7:13 Ver. 13. For the seller shall not return to that which is sold,.... In the year of jubilee, because he shall be in captivity: according to the law in Le 25:13, when a man had sold his possession, he returned to it again, if alive, in the year of jubilee; let it come sooner or later, within thirty, or twen…
304 wordsSECTION 93Ezekiel 7:14
Ezekiel 7:14 Ver. 14. They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready,.... That is, the Jews, when they understood that the enemy was approaching, blew the trumpet, to give the inhabitants of their several cities and towns warning of it; that they might gather together, provide themselves with armour, and put them…
182 wordsSECTION 94Ezekiel 7:15
Ezekiel 7:15 Ver. 15. The sword [is] without,.... Without the city, where the enemy was besieging; so that those that went without, in order to make their escapes fell into their hands: and the pestilence and the famine within; within the city; so that such who thought themselves safe in their own houses died by thos…
97 wordsSECTION 95Ezekiel 7:16
Ezekiel 7:16 Ver. 16. But they that escape of them shall escape,.... Some few should escape the pestilence, famine, and sword, and flee to the mountains, where they should live a very miserable and uncomfortable life; so that this is no contradiction to the wrath of God being upon the whole multitude, Eze 7:12; as it …
2,246 wordsSECTION 96Ezekiel 8:1
Ezekiel 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 8 This chapter contains a vision the prophet had of the idolatry of the Jews, which was the cause of their destruction. The time when, place, where, and persons with whom he was, when the hand of the Lord came upon him, are mentioned, Eze 8:1; then follows a description of the divi…
733 wordsSECTION 97Ezekiel 8:2
Ezekiel 8:2 Ver. 2. And then one beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire,.... The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "behold the likeness of a man"; reading vya, "a man", for va, "fire"; but without supposing such a reading, for which there is no foundation, this likeness may very well be understood…
380 wordsSECTION 98Ezekiel 8:3
Ezekiel 8:3 Ver. 3. And he put forth the form of an hand,.... That is, he that appeared in the likeness of a man, and with so much glory and splendour, out of the midst of the fire and brightness which were about him, put forth the form of a hand, that looked like a man's hand; for this appearance was not real, only v…
414 wordsSECTION 99Ezekiel 8:4
Ezekiel 8:4 Ver. 4. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there,.... In the temple, between the cherubim, where the Shechinah or the glory of the divine Majesty dwelt; for as yet he had not removed, though provoked to it, and as he afterwards did; or he was here to destroy the idols, and both city and temp…
143 wordsSECTION 100Ezekiel 8:5
Ezekiel 8:5 Ver. 5. Then said he unto me, son of man,.... That is, the glorious Person described above in this vision, the glorious God of Israel, seen by the prophet in the temple, he spoke unto him, calling him son of man; a name by which he often goes in this prophecy: lift up thine eyes now toward the north; of t…
181 wordsSECTION 101Ezekiel 8:6
Ezekiel 8:6 Ver. 6. He said furthermore unto me, son of man,.... He continued his speech to the prophet, saying seest thou what they do? the idolatrous Jews, who had set up a graven image at the northern gate of the court, where the altar was, and were sacrificing to it: [even] the great abominations that the house …
263 wordsSECTION 102Ezekiel 8:7
Ezekiel 8:7 Ver. 7. And he brought me to the door of the court,.... Of the inner court, the court of the priests and Levites. Dr. Lightfoot {x} says this was the east gate, and most common way of entrance; and in that gate the sanhedrim used to sit in these times; and there the prophet sees their council chamber paint…
97 wordsSECTION 103Ezekiel 8:8
Ezekiel 8:8 Ver. 8. Then said he unto me, son of man, dig now in the wall,.... And so make the hole larger; that he might have a fuller view of what was to be seen within the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door; an opening, by which he could go into the cell or chamber, and take a full view of what…
138 wordsSECTION 104Ezekiel 8:9
Ezekiel 8:9 Ver. 9. And he said unto me, go in,.... Into the room or chamber the door opened into: and behold the wicked abominations they do here; the idolatries there committed, wicked in themselves, and abominable to God.…
40 wordsSECTION 105Ezekiel 8:10
Ezekiel 8:10 Ver. 10. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things,.... As beetles and others, worshipped for gods: and abominable beasts; unclean ones; not only oxen, but dogs and cats, and other impure creatures; for such were the gods of the Egyptians, from whom the Jews took their deities: and …
128 wordsSECTION 106Ezekiel 8:11
Ezekiel 8:11 Ver. 11. And there stood before them,.... Before the pictures, as the Vulgate Latin version expresses it, praying, sacrificing, and offering incense unto them: seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel; the whole sanhedrim, or great court of judicature among the Jews, as Kimchi; or at least ther…
296 wordsSECTION 107Ezekiel 8:12
Ezekiel 8:12 Ver. 12. Then said he unto me, son of man, hast thou seen,.... Here should be a stop, as the accent "segolta" shows; hast thou taken notice of, hast thou considered, what thou hast seen, the amazing shocking abominations committed by these men? it follows, and the question is to be repeated, "hast thou se…
402 wordsSECTION 108Ezekiel 8:13
Ezekiel 8:13 Ver. 13. He said also unto me, turn thee yet again,.... Towards the north, as before; See Gill on "Eze 8:6";[and] thou shall see greater abominations that they do; or: "the great abominations"; for so the words may be strictly rendered; nor does it appear that what follows, though great abominations, were…
2,303 wordsSECTION 109Ezekiel 9:1
Ezekiel 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 9 In this chapter is contained a vision, representing the destruction of the idolatrous Jews, and the preservation of the godly that were among them, in which different persons were employed; they that were concerned in the destruction of the idolaters are described by their office…
503 wordsSECTION 110Ezekiel 9:2
Ezekiel 9:2 Ver. 2. And, behold, six men,.... Either angels the form of men; or the generals of Nebuchadnezzar's army, as Kimchi interprets it; whose names are, Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, Jer 39:3; these six executioners of God's vengeance are, in the Talmud {n}, called "…
765 wordsSECTION 111Ezekiel 9:3
Ezekiel 9:3 Ver. 3. And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was,.... That is, the glorious God of Israel; or the glorious Shechinah, and divine Majesty, which dwelt between the cherubim over the mercy seat in the most holy place, removed from thence, as a token of his being about t…
197 wordsSECTION 112Ezekiel 9:4
Ezekiel 9:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord said unto him,.... This shows that a divine Person is meant by the glory of the God of Israel: go through the midst of the city; that is, as it is next explained, through the midst of Jerusalem; the city the six men had the charge over or against, Eze 9:1; and set a mark upon the fo…
734 wordsSECTION 113Ezekiel 9:5
Ezekiel 9:5 Ver. 5. And, to the others he said in mine hearing,.... To the other six men that had the slaughter weapons in their hands: go ye after him through the city; that is, after the man clothed with linen; for he was sent out first to take care of the righteous, and preserve them; and the rest were not suffere…
203 wordsSECTION 114Ezekiel 9:6
Ezekiel 9:6 Ver. 6. Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women,.... All, of them objects of compassion, because of their age and sex; and yet none to be spared; and which orders were exactly obeyed; see 2Ch 36:17; but come not near any man on whom [is] the mark; these were not to be slai…
221 wordsSECTION 115Ezekiel 9:7
Ezekiel 9:7 Ver. 7. And he said unto them, defile the house,.... The temple; do not be afraid of slaying any person in it, for fear of defiling it; they have defiled it with their abominations, and now do you defile it with their blood: and fill the courts with the slain; the court of the priests, and the court of th…
141 wordsSECTION 116Ezekiel 9:8
Ezekiel 9:8 Ver. 8. And it came to pass, while they were slaying them,.... That were in the city: and I was left; in the temple; and the only one that was left there, the rest were slain; for there were none marked in the temple, only in the city, Eze 9:4; that I fell upon my face; as a supplicant, with great humili…
141 wordsSECTION 117Ezekiel 9:9
Ezekiel 9:9 Ver. 9. Then he said unto me,.... In order to satisfy the prophet, and make him easy, and show the equity and justice of the divine proceedings: the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great; it cannot be well conceived or expressed how great it is; it abounded and superabounded: this…
250 wordsSECTION 118Ezekiel 9:10
Ezekiel 9:10 Ver. 10. And as for me also,.... As they have not spared the poor and the needy, the widow and the fatherless, but have perverted their judgment, and shed innocent blood: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, [but] I will recompence their way upon their head; deal with them by the law of re…
72 wordsSECTION 119Ezekiel 9:11
Ezekiel 9:11 Ver. 11. And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which [had] the inkhorn by his side,.... Eze 9:2; to whom the orders were given to mark the mourners in the city, Eze 9:4. The Syriac version is, "then I saw the man", &c. which must direct him to observe and call to mind the distinguishing goodness of God…
259 wordsSECTION 120Ezekiel 10:1
Ezekiel 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 10 In this chapter is a vision, very much like that in the first chapter, with some difference, and with a different view, the design of it being to represent the wrath of God against Jerusalem, and his departure from the city and temple. A throne much like that in Eze 1:26 is des…
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