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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Ezekiel
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 319,055 words · 620 reading sections
Ezekiel 24:11
Ezekiel 24:11 Ver. 11. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof,.... The city, when emptied of its inhabitants and substance, like a pot that is boiled over, and all in it boiled away, or taken out; burn it with fire, as the city of Jerusalem when taken and plundered was: that the brass of it may be hot, and burn; as…
243 wordsSECTION 302Ezekiel 24:12
Ezekiel 24:12 Ver. 12. She hath wearied herself with lies,.... With serving idols, which were lying vanities; by trusting to the alliances of neighbouring nations, which deceived her; or by committing sin, in which there was no satisfaction; or it may be understood of wearying of God with their sins, and particularly …
170 wordsSECTION 303Ezekiel 24:13
Ezekiel 24:13 Ver. 13. In thy filthiness is lewdness,.... Consummate wickedness joined with impudence, and an obstinate persisting in it; though her sins were so abominable and filthy, yet she was not ashamed of them, nor could be reclaimed from them; but, like a lewd woman, or an old harlot, was bold and impudent: b…
153 wordsSECTION 304Ezekiel 24:14
Ezekiel 24:14 Ver. 14. I the Lord have spoken it; it shall come to pass,.... What God has said shall be accomplished; his word shall not return void and empty, or be without effect: and I will do it; being God omnipotent and unchangeable: I will not go back; from his word, or the thing threatened and denounced; noth…
167 wordsSECTION 305Ezekiel 24:15
Ezekiel 24:15 Ver. 15. Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Next follows the other sign, by which the Lord shows the destruction of the temple.…
30 wordsSECTION 306Ezekiel 24:16
Ezekiel 24:16 Ver. 16. Son of man, behold,.... This is said to raise the attention of the prophet, something strange and unusual, interesting and affecting, being about to be delivered: I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; meaning his wife; who very probably was of a beautiful countenance, an…
3,234 wordsSECTION 307Ezekiel 25:1
Ezekiel 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 25 In this chapter the prophet foretells the judgments of God upon the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Philistines, for their ill usage of the Jews; on the Ammonites, Eze 25:1, on the Moabites, Eze 25:8, on the Edomites, Eze 25:12, on the Philistines, Eze 25:15. Ver. 1. The wo…
91 wordsSECTION 308Ezekiel 25:2
Ezekiel 25:2 Ver. 2. Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites,.... Who were of the posterity of Lot, implacable enemies of the Jews; who hated their religion, and envied their wealth and happiness; against these the prophet is bid to "set his face"; to look that way where they lived, and to put on a frowning cou…
90 wordsSECTION 309Ezekiel 25:3
Ezekiel 25:3 Ver. 3. And say unto the Ammonites,.... Either to their ambassadors at Babylon, or merchants there; or by letters to them, the prophet being in Chaldea, at a distance from them: hear the word of the Lord God; not Chemosh their idol, nor their lying oracles, but the word of the true and living God; which …
307 wordsSECTION 310Ezekiel 25:4
Ezekiel 25:4 Ver. 4. Behold, therefore, I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession,.... The Chaldeans and Syrians, which were on the east side, as Jarchi; or the Medes and Persians, as Kimchi, which lay more eastward; or it may be the Arabians, who are commonly called the men of the east; who were a p…
231 wordsSECTION 311Ezekiel 25:5
Ezekiel 25:5 Ver. 5. And I will make Rabbath a stable for camels,.... Creatures much used by the eastern nations, especially the Arabians; who pitching their tents about Rabbath, the royal city, the metropolis of the children of Ammon, would convert the houses, and even palaces in it, into stables for their camels. Th…
151 wordsSECTION 312Ezekiel 25:6
Ezekiel 25:6 Ver. 6. For thus saith the Lord God,.... Their sin and punishment are further enlarged upon: because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy feet: gestures expressive of joy and gladness, Isa 55:12, the Ammonites clapped their hands together, and leaped and skipped for joy, when they heard of…
168 wordsSECTION 313Ezekiel 25:7
Ezekiel 25:7 Ver. 7. Behold, therefore, I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,.... In just retaliation for clapping their hands against his people; and which hand of the Lord they would find to be a heavy one, and which they would not be able either to resist or bear. The Targum is, "I will lift up the stroke of my …
258 wordsSECTION 314Ezekiel 25:8
Ezekiel 25:8 Ver. 8. Thus saith the Lord God,.... By his servant the prophet, to whom the word of the Lord came; as concerning the Ammonites, so likewise concerning the Moabites, as follows: because that Moab and Seir do say; that is, the Moabites, and the Edomites, which latter are meant by Seir, that being the seat…
352 wordsSECTION 315Ezekiel 25:9
Ezekiel 25:9 Ver. 9. Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities,.... Or, "the shoulder of Moab" {t}; that part of their country where their greatest strength lay, So the Targum renders it, "the strength of Moab;'' where their principal cities were, their frontier towns, and fortified places, as …
283 wordsSECTION 316Ezekiel 25:10
Ezekiel 25:10 Ver. 10. Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and I will give them in possession,.... Or, "against the Ammonites", as the Targum; that is, way should be made for the same people of the east, the Chaldeans or Arabians, that came against the Ammonites and destroyed them, to enter into the land of M…
98 wordsSECTION 317Ezekiel 25:11
Ezekiel 25:11 Ver. 11. I will execute judgments upon Moab,.... For though the Chaldeans and Arabians were the instruments of their ruin, their destruction was of the Lord; it was his hand that was upon them, and his vengeance that was executed on them, for their hard sayings against his people; for though he had spoke…
100 wordsSECTION 318Ezekiel 25:12
Ezekiel 25:12 Ver. 12. Thus saith the Lord God,.... Concerning Seir or the Edomites, the prophecy concerning the Moabites being finished: because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance: or, "revenging a revenge" {w}; the Edomites bore an old grudge against the Jews, not only because their…
172 wordsSECTION 319Ezekiel 25:13
Ezekiel 25:13 Ver. 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Because of such base and barbarous usage, from a people that were originally brethren: I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; by the army of Nebuchadnezzar, by the sword of the Chaldeans, and by famine and pest…
165 wordsSECTION 320Ezekiel 25:14
Ezekiel 25:14 Ver. 14. And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by fie hand of my people Israel,.... This was fulfilled in the times of the Maccabees, when Judas Maccabins overthrew and conquered them,"Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a g…
725 wordsSECTION 321Ezekiel 26:1
Ezekiel 26:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 26 This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Tyre. The time of the prophecy, Eze 26:1, the cause of the destruction of it, rejoicing at the ruin of Jerusalem, Eze 26:2, the instruments of it, many nations, particularly the king of Babylon, Eze 26:3, the manner in whic…
220 wordsSECTION 322Ezekiel 26:2
Ezekiel 26:2 Ver. 2. Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, aha,.... As rejoicing at her destruction, and insulting over her in it; which was barbarous and inhuman, and resented by the Lord: she is broken that was the gates of the people; through whose gates the people went in and out in great nu…
331 wordsSECTION 323Ezekiel 26:3
Ezekiel 26:3 Ver. 3. Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Who knew the thoughts of the inhabitants of Tyre, and what joy possessed their hearts, and which their lips expressed; and who informs the prophet of it, though at a great distance, and declares his resentment at it: behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus; and n…
219 wordsSECTION 324Ezekiel 26:4
Ezekiel 26:4 Ver. 4. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus.... Undermining them, or breaking them down with their battering rams: and break down her towers; with axes, Eze 26:9 built upon the walls; erected for the defence of the city, and for watchmen to stand in, to look out from them for the enemy, and observe…
186 wordsSECTION 325Ezekiel 26:5
Ezekiel 26:5 Ver. 5. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea,.... Where only fishermen would be seen washing their nets, and then spreading them upon this rock, where Tyre stood, to dry them and this has been confirmed by travellers, who have seen fishermen spreading and drying their nets…
366 wordsSECTION 326Ezekiel 26:6
Ezekiel 26:6 Ver. 6. And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword,.... That is, the inhabitants of the cities, towns, and villages, on the shore near it, and which were subject to it; as such cities are frequently in Scripture called the daughters of the place to which they belong: or their dau…
168 wordsSECTION 327Ezekiel 26:7
Ezekiel 26:7 Ver. 7. For thus saith the Lord God,.... What follows; and declares by name the person that should be the instrument of this ruin, and the manner in which it should be brought about: I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon; a prince whose name was terrible, having conquered many nations: …
295 wordsSECTION 328Ezekiel 26:8
Ezekiel 26:8 Ver. 8. He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field,.... The first thing he would do would be to destroy the cities, towns and villages on the continent, near to Tyre, and dependent on it, as in Eze 26:6, and so the Targum is here, as there: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a m…
151 wordsSECTION 329Ezekiel 26:9
Ezekiel 26:9 Ver. 9. And he shall set engines of war against thy walls,.... Which some Jewish writers understand of crossbows, out of which stones or arrows were cast; but rather, according to Kimchi and Jarchi, they were warlike machines, invented to throw large stones against the walls of a place, to beat them down.…
153 wordsSECTION 330Ezekiel 26:10
Ezekiel 26:10 Ver. 10. By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee,.... The dust raised by the feet of the horses so numerous, should rise in such quantities, and to such a height, as to be like a cloud, which should cover the city; an hyperbolical way of speaking, as Kimchi observes; as is al…
226 wordsSECTION 331Ezekiel 26:11
Ezekiel 26:11 Ver. 11. With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets,.... Such a number of horses running to and fro in the streets, and prancing upon the pavements, shall break them up, and destroy them, so that they shall be mere mire and dirt: he shall slay thy people by the sword; such as would…
247 wordsSECTION 332Ezekiel 26:12
Ezekiel 26:12 Ver. 12. And they shall make a spoil of thy riches,.... The Chaldean army, when they entered the city, and got possession of it, would plunder it, and divide the riches of it among them: and make a prey of thy merchandise; of the merchants' goods, laid up in their warehouses for sale, which was greatly …
253 wordsSECTION 333Ezekiel 26:13
Ezekiel 26:13 Ver. 13. And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease,.... As this city abounded with riches, so with carnal mirth and pleasure; it was a "joyous city", Isa 23:7, the inhabitants lived merrily and jovially; were much given to music, which was very diverting and amusing to foreigners that traded with …
114 wordsSECTION 334Ezekiel 26:14
Ezekiel 26:14 Ver. 14. And I will make thee like the top of a rock,.... Smooth and bare; See Gill on "Eze 26:4": and thou shall be a place to spread nets upon; See Gill on "Eze 26:5": thou shalt be built no more: this must be understood with some restriction and limitation; as that it should not be built any more in…
1,891 wordsSECTION 335Ezekiel 27:1
Ezekiel 27:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 27 This chapter contains a lamentation on Tyre; setting forth her former grandeur, riches, and commerce; her ruin and destruction; and the concern of others on that account. The prophet is bid to take up his lamentation concerning it, Eze 27:1, observing her situation and magnific…
169 wordsSECTION 336Ezekiel 27:2
Ezekiel 27:2 Ver. 2. Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus. Compose an elegy, and sing it; make a mournful noise, and deliver out a funeral ditty; such as the "praeficae", or mournful women, made at funerals, in which they said all they could in praise of the dead, and made very doleful lamentations fo…
99 wordsSECTION 337Ezekiel 27:3
Ezekiel 27:3 Ver. 3. And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,.... Of the Mediterranean sea; at the eastern part of it, not above half a mile from the continent; and so fit for a seaport, and a harbour for shipping; so mystical Tyre sits on many waters, Re 17:1: which art a merchant of the …
226 wordsSECTION 338Ezekiel 27:4
Ezekiel 27:4 Ver. 4. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, Fixed by the Lord himself, and which could never be removed. Tyre stood about half a mile from the continent, surrounded with the waters of the sea, till it was made a peninsula by Alexander: thy builders have perfected thy beauty. The Sidonians were the …
150 wordsSECTION 339Ezekiel 27:5
Ezekiel 27:5 Ver. 5. They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir,.... The same with Sion and Hermon, which the Sidonians called Sirion, and the Amorites Shenir, De 3:9 here, it seems, grew the best of fir trees, of which the Tyrians made boards and planks for shipping; of these the two sides of the ship, …
249 wordsSECTION 340Ezekiel 27:6
Ezekiel 27:6 Ver. 6. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars,.... To row the ships with; for their ships probably were no other than galleys, which were rowed with oars, as were the ships of first invention. Bashan was a country in Judea where oaks grew; see Isa 2:13. The country of Judea in general was famous…
425 wordsSECTION 341Ezekiel 27:7
Ezekiel 27:7 Ver. 7. Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt,.... From whence came the finest and whitest linen; and which they embroidered with needlework, which looked very beautiful. Pliny {x} says there were four sorts of linen in Egypt, called Tanitic, Pelusiac, Butic, and Tentyritic, from the names and provinc…
588 wordsSECTION 342Ezekiel 27:8
Ezekiel 27:8 Ver. 8. The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners,.... Zidon was a city in Phoenicia, near to Tyre, and older than that, by whose inhabitants it was built; see the notes on Isa 23:2 and Arvad was an island in Phoenicia, to the south of Zidon, not far from Tyre. Mr. Maundrell {g} says it is abou…
422 wordsSECTION 343Ezekiel 27:9
Ezekiel 27:9 Ver. 9. The ancients of Gebal,.... A promontory of the Phoenicians, the same with the Gabale of Pliny {n}, and with the land of the Giblites, Jos 13:5. It was by the Greeks called Byblus; and so the Septuagint here render the words, the elders of Bybli or Byblus, a place once famous for the birth and temp…
420 wordsSECTION 344Ezekiel 27:10
Ezekiel 27:10 Ver. 10. They of Persia, and of Lud, and of Phut, were in thine army, thy men of war,.... As the Tryrians were a trading people, they hired foreign troops into their service, to fill their garrisons, defend their city, and fight for them in time of war; and these were of various nations, and the most fam…
226 wordsSECTION 345Ezekiel 27:11
Ezekiel 27:11 Ver. 11. The men of Arvad, with thine army were upon thy walls round about,.... Placed there for the defence of the city, to watch against an enemy, lest it should be surprised; here they were upon the patrol day and night; see Isa 62:6, these were the men of the same place before mentioned, Eze 27:8 whi…
357 wordsSECTION 346Ezekiel 27:12
Ezekiel 27:12 Ver. 12. Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches,.... Some understand this of the sea, which is sometimes called Tarshish; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it here: and the Targum, "from the sea, or they of the sea bring merchandise into the midst of thee:'' that is, th…
319 wordsSECTION 347Ezekiel 27:13
Ezekiel 27:13 Ver. 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they [were] thy merchants,.... Javan designs Greece, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it; especially that part of it called Ionia, from Javan the son of Japheth, Ge 10:2 and Tubal, and Meshech, were also sons of Japheth; the former are the Iberi and A…
5,167 wordsSECTION 348Ezekiel 28:1
Ezekiel 28:1 INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 28 This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of the prince of Tyre; a lamentation for the king of Tyre; a denunciation of judgments on Zidon, and a promise of peace and safety to Israel. The order given the prophet to prophesy of the ruin of the prince of Tyre, Eze 28:1,…
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Ezekiel 28:2 Ver. 2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre,.... Whose name was Ethbaal, or Ithobalus, as he is called in Josephus; for that this was Hiram that was in the days of Solomon, and lived a thousand years, is a fable of the Jewish Rabbins, as Jerom relates: this prince of Tyre is thought by some to be an e…
475 wordsSECTION 350Ezekiel 28:3
Ezekiel 28:3 Ver. 3. Behold; thou art wiser than Daniel,.... That is, in his own opinion; or it is ironically said. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it by way of interrogation, "art thou not wiser than Daniel?" who was now at the court of Babylon, and was famous throughout all Chaldea for his knowle…
263 wordsSECTION 351Ezekiel 28:4
Ezekiel 28:4 Ver. 4. With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,.... Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale …
79 wordsSECTION 352Ezekiel 28:5
Ezekiel 28:5 Ver. 5. By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" {i}; through great skill in trade and commerce: hast thou increased thy riches; to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is on…
145 wordsSECTION 353Ezekiel 28:6
Ezekiel 28:6 Ver. 6. Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Now follows the punishment threatened, because of all this pride, haughtiness, and blasphemy: because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; seeking thine own glory; setting up thyself above all others; assuming that to thyself which belongs to God; …
73 wordsSECTION 354Ezekiel 28:7
Ezekiel 28:7 Ver. 7. Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee,.... The Chaldean army, who not only lived at a distance from Tyre, but were unknown to them, not trading with them; nor are they mentioned among the merchants of Tyre: these, in the mystical sense, may design the angels that shall pour out the v…
289 wordsSECTION 355Ezekiel 28:8
Ezekiel 28:8 Ver. 8. They shall bring thee down to the pit,.... Or, "to corruption" {k}; to the grave, the pit of corruption and destruction; so antichrist shall go into perdition, into the bottomless pit from whence he came, Re 17:8: and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas; that…
79 wordsSECTION 356Ezekiel 28:9
Ezekiel 28:9 Ver. 9. Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?.... When thou art in the enemies' hands, and just going to be put to death, wilt thou then confidently assert thy deity, and to his face tell him that thou art God? surely thy courage and thy confidence, thy blasphemy and impiety, will leav…
170 wordsSECTION 357Ezekiel 28:10
Ezekiel 28:10 Ver. 10. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised,.... Or the death of the wicked, as the Targum; the first and second death, temporal and eternal: the former by the hand of strangers, the Chaldeans, in various shapes; and the latter will follow upon it: it may denote the various kinds of death wh…
120 wordsSECTION 358Ezekiel 28:11
Ezekiel 28:11 Ver. 11. Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me,.... After the prophecy concerning the ruin of the prince of Tyre, the word of the Lord came to the prophet, ordering him to take up a lamentation on the king of Tyre: saying; as follows:…
49 wordsSECTION 359Ezekiel 28:12
Ezekiel 28:12 Ver. 12. Take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,.... Who is before called the prince of Tyre; and who he was See Gill on "Eze 28:2", the bishop of Rome was first only a "nagid", a prince, ruler, governor, and leader in the church; afterwards he became a king, a head, even over other kings, princes,…
359 wordsSECTION 360Ezekiel 28:13
Ezekiel 28:13 Ver. 13. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God,.... Not only in Eden, but in the garden which was in Eden, and was of the Lord's immediate planting; and therefore called the garden of God, as well as because of its excellency, fragrancy, and delight; not that the king of Tyre was literally there, or e…
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