Ezekiel 24:23. Ye shall not mourn, &c.— That is, "These terrible judgments upon your city and sanctuary shall strike you with such astonishment, and fill you with such poignant grief, as is too great to be expressed with tears or words." See on Ezekiel 24:17. read more
23. ye shall not mourn . . . but . . . pine away for your iniquities—The Jews' not mourning was to be not the result of insensibility, any more than Ezekiel's not mourning for his wife was not from want of feeling. They could not in their exile manifest publicly their lamentation, but they would privately "mourn one to another." Their "iniquities" would then be their chief sorrow ("pining away"), as feeling that these were the cause of their sufferings (compare Leviticus 26:39; Lamentations... read more
24. sign—a typical representative in his own person of what was to befall them ( :-). when this cometh—alluding probably to their taunt, as if God's word spoken by His prophets would never come to pass. "Where is the word of the Lord? Let it come now" (Jeremiah 17:15). When the prophecy is fulfilled, "ye shall know (to your cost) that I am the Lord," who thereby show My power and fulfil My word spoken by My prophet (John 13:19; John 14:29). read more
The sign of the death of Ezekiel’s wife 24:15-24 read more
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
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
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
(23) Ye shall pine away.—In the tumult, distress, and captivity of the approaching judgment there would be no opportunity for the outward display of grief; but all the more should it press upon them inwardly, and, according to the terrible threatening of Leviticus 26:39, they should “pine away in their iniquity” in their enemies’ land. In the original the preposition is the same here as in Leviticus, “in your iniquity.” read more
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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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 24:23
ye shall not. Some codices read "yet shall ye neither". mourn moan. iniquities. Hebrew. 'avah . App-44 , read more