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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 24:21

desire . . . pitieth . Note the Figure of speech Paronomaeia ( App-6 ), to call attention to the emphasis. Hebrew. mahmad. . . mahmal. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13 . left = left behind. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:21

21. excellency of your strength—(compare Amos 6:8). The object of your pride and confidence (Jeremiah 7:4; Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 7:14). desire of . . . eyes— (Psalms 27:4). The antitype to Ezekiel's wife (Ezekiel 24:16). pitieth—loveth, as pity is akin to love: "yearned over." Profane—an appropriate word. They had profaned the temple with idolatry; God, in just retribution, will profane it with the Chaldean sword, that is, lay it in the dust, as Ezekiel's wife. sons . . . daughters . . .... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 24:22

22. (Jeremiah 16:6; Jeremiah 16:7). So general shall be the calamity, that all ordinary usages of mourning shall be suspended. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:15-27

2. Signs to the exiles 24:15-27The preceding parable pictured the siege of Jerusalem itself. The symbolic acts that Ezekiel performed next, perhaps on the same day, represented how the exiles were to respond to the news of Jerusalem’s siege. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:20-21

The prophet replied that the Lord had said that He was about to destroy the temple and to slay the relatives of the exiles who remained in Jerusalem. The Jews loved the temple almost as much as Ezekiel loved his wife. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 24:22-24

Ezekiel instructed the people to respond to their tragic loss as he had to his. The reason they were not to mourn publicly but only privately, though unstated, was that the judgment that God executed on Jerusalem was deserved."Ezekiel had a right to mourn his undeserved personal loss but did not. The Israelites had no right to mourn for their well-deserved national loss and could not . . ." [Note: Stuart, p. 243.] "God is not the author of personal tragedy, but he does often use such... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 24:1-27

The Allegory of the Boiling Caldron. Ezekiel’s Bereavement and Significant SilenceThis prophecy is dated on the day on which the siege of Jerusalem began. Ezekiel is commanded by God to note the date, and to speak to the exiles a final parable of the city’s coming fate. Jerusalem is a rusty pot filled with water and meat and set upon a fire. The meat is well boiled, and brought out piece by piece at random. The empty pot is then set back on the fire that the rust may be burned away. The rust... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 24:21

(21) Profane my sanctuary.—Not merely by its destruction, but by the manner of its destruction, the Gentiles being allowed to enter its most sacred precincts, and carry off in triumph its sacred vessels and treasures. It was in the confidence that God would protect this that the last hope of the Jews lay; He tells them that He will Himself profane it. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 24:1-27

Ezekiel 24:15-16 The enunciation of laws or principles seems more especially to belong to Ezekiel, as the experience of personal evil and the sympathy with national sorrow belong more to the tender and womanly nature of Jeremiah. Nevertheless, Ezekiel was to be a priest in this sense also, as well as in that higher sense of beholding the glory of God and proclaiming His name. Suffering was not the destination of one prophet; it was the badge of all the tribe. F. D. Maurice. To love, is to know... read more

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