Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:18
18. Symbolical representation of the famine and fear with which they should eat their scanty morsel, in their exile, and especially at the siege. read more
以西結書 12:18 Rcuvts
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 12:1-20
1. The dramatic tragedy of exile 12:1-20This section contains three messages from the Lord all of which deal with the inevitability of another deportation of Jews from Jerusalem and Judah (Ezekiel 12:1-20). Jerusalem would be overthrown and the Jews still there would be taken to Babylon in the very near future. The prophet’s perspective now broadened from the temple (chs. 8-11) to the city (ch. 12). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 12:17-18
The Lord also instructed Ezekiel to eat his bread and drink his water while trembling and visibly anxious. The prophet appears to have been eating still the symbolic rations that God had prescribed for him earlier (Ezekiel 4:9-17). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 12:17-20
The sign of the anxious eater 12:17-20 read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 12:1-20
Symbols of Exile, Flight, and FamineEzekiel’s audience being blind to the meaning of the vision he has just described, he is commanded to give them, in new symbolic actions, a further representation of the coming fate of Jerusalem and its king and people. He is told to gather together such things as one leaving home would take with him, and to carry these out of his house by day. At night he is to dig a hole in a wall, and pass through it with his face covered and his baggage on his shoulder.... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 12:1-28
§ 4. Further Prophecies of Israel's Guilt and approaching Punishment (Ezekiel 12-19)This is a somewhat miscellaneous group of prophecies intermediate in date between the preceding (August-September, 591 b.c.) and succeeding (July-August, 590 b.c.) sections. It includes fresh symbols of exile, flight, and famine (Eze 12:1-20), a doctrine of prophecy, true and false (Eze 12:21 to Eze 14:11), an explanation of God's exceptional treatment of Jerusalem in sparing a remnant (Eze 14:12-23), Ezekiel's... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 12:18
(18) Eat thy bread with quaking.—This is another symbolical action, the meaning of which is immediately explained. The prophet is to eat and drink as men in the terror and distress of a siege. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 12:1-28
Ezekiel 12:2 It is as easy to close the eyes of the mind as those of the body; and the former is more frequently done with wilfulness, and yet not attended to, than the latter; the actions of the mind being more quick and transient than those of the senses. Butler. The one Enemy we have in this Universe is Stupidity, Darkness of Mind; of which darkness, again there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Darkness of mind, in every kind and variety,... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 12:1-28
CHAPTERS 12-19 Signs, Messages, and Parables 1. Signs given through the prophet (Ezekiel 12:1-20 ) 2. The message of speedy judgment (Ezekiel 12:21-28 ) 3. The message against false prophets and prophetesses. (Ezekiel 13:1-23 ) 4. The message against the elders (Ezekiel 14:1-23 ) 5. The parable of the vine given to the fire (Ezekiel 15:1-8 ) 6. The parable of the abandoned child and Israel’s whoredom (Ezekiel 16:1-63 ) 7. The parable of the riddle of the two eagles and the vine... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 12:18
I will leave , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:27 ). men. Hebrew, plural of enosh. App-14 . from . Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and from", which em phasises the Figure of speech Polysyndeton ( App-6 ), to enhance the completeness of the enumeration. heathen = nations. read more