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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:18

Here the sign is the exhibition of such terror as the danger of a siege creates. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:19-20

The people of the land - Chaldaea.Of the inhabitants - In respect to “the inhabitants.”Desolate from, all that is therein - i. e., stripped of all its inhabitants and of all its wealth.At one and the same time, Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem, and Ezekiel in Chaldaea; the prophecies of the former were sent to the exiles, and those of Ezekiel to the dwellers at Jerusalem, that the guiding hand of One God in different places might be made clear (Jerome). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 12:17-19

Ezekiel 12:17-19. Moreover, &c. As he was a sign to them in digging through the wall and carrying out his stuff, so he must now be a sign to them in another way. Eat thy bread with quaking, &c. Show all the signs of anxiety and consternation when thou takest thy common sustenance. This he was to do that he might express the calamitous condition of those that should be in Jerusalem during the siege. And say unto the people Thy fellow-captives; Thus saith the Lord of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 12:17-28

Messages to be heeded (12:17-28)Ezekiel’s starvation diet symbolized the shortage of food in Jerusalem during the last great siege (see 4:9-17). He was now told that, when he ate, he was to act as if he were stricken with terror, to emphasize the horror of the events about to overtake Jerusalem (17-20).Many of the exiles doubted the truth of the messages that Ezekiel announced. They argued that days, months, and even years passed, but they did not see his prophecies fulfilled (21-22). God’s... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 12:19

of the inhabitants = to the inhabitants. the land, &c. = concerning the land, &c. Hebrew admath. See note on Ezekiel 11:17 . her . Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "their". all . The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version omitted this "all". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 12:20

the cities . . . shall be laid waste. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:31 ). App-92 . ye shall know, &c. See note on Ezekiel 6:7 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:19

19. people of the land—the Jews "in the land" of Chaldea who thought themselves miserable as being exiles and envied the Jews left in Jerusalem as fortunate. land of Israel—contrasted with "the people in the land" of Chaldea. So far from being fortunate as the exiles in Chaldea regarded them, the Jews in Jerusalem are truly miserable, for the worst is before them, whereas the exiles have escaped the miseries of the coming siege. land . . . desolate from all that is therein—literally, "that the... read more

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