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Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:10

I have not said in vain, etc. The thought of that self-loathing and repentance reconciles Ezekiel to his work. To "labour in vain" is the great misery of all workers for God. A time will come when he shall see that God has not sent him to such a work "in vain." What before was dark will be made clear unto him (comp. Ezekiel 14:23 ). Ezekiel's words, "not in vain," are echoed frequently by St. Paul ( 1 Corinthians 15:14 , 1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 2 Corinthians 6:1 ; Philippians 2:16 , ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 6:10

The consciousness of God. To know that God is the Lord, i.e. Jehovah, is very different from knowing that Jehovah is God. In the latter case the true God is distinguished from false gods, as in Elijah's great appeal ( 1 Kings 18:21 , 1 Kings 18:39 ). But in the former case, though there is no question of what God shall be worshipped, the being and presence of the one true God need to be believed and realized. Jehovah means, "He who is," the Eternal, the one true self-existent Being.... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:9

I am broken ... - Translate: “because” I have broken “their whorish heart, which hath departed from me,” and their eyes etc. Since Ezekiel is addressing the Church of God through Israel, we are to note here that the general principle of the divine administration is laid down. Sin leads to judgment, judgment to repentance, repentance to forgiveness, forgiveness to reconciliation, reconciliation to a knowledge of communion with God. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:8-10

Ezekiel 6:8-10 . Yet will I leave a remnant “A gracious exception that often occurs in the prophets when they denounce general judgments against the Jews; implying that God will still preserve a remnant of that people; to whom he will fulfil the promises made to their fathers.” And they that escape of you shall remember me, &c. Your afflictions shall bring you to the knowledge of yourselves, and a sense of your duty to me. Because I am broken with their whorish hearts I am much... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-14

The idolatry of Israel (6:1-14)From the time of the judges (the period that followed Israel’s settlement of Canaan) the people of Israel had copied Canaanite religious practices. Canaanite gods, collectively known as Baalim (plural of Baal) were gods of nature, and Israelites used the Canaanite shrines throughout the countryside as places to offer worship to Yahweh. These shrines were called ‘high places’ because they were usually built on the tops of hills and mountains. Israel’s false worship... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 6:9

I am broken with. Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate read "I have broken". whorish: i.e. idolatrous. evils . Hebrew. nI's'. App-44 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 6:10

they shall know that I am the LORD . This expression occurs again in Ezekiel 6:14 ; Ezekiel 12:15 ; Ezekiel 20:26 ; Ezekiel 30:8 ; Eze 30:32 , Ezekiel 30:15 . Other similar passages outside Ezekiel are, first, Exodus 7:5 .Leviticus 23:43 (reference to Pentateuch); then 1Sa 17:44 , 1 Samuel 17:47 . 1 Kings 8:43 ; 1Ki 18:37 . 2 Chronicles 6:33 .Psalms 59:13 ; Psalms 83:18 ; Psalms 109:27 . Isaiah 19:12 ; Isaiah 41:20 ; Isaiah 46:6 ; Jeremiah 31:34 . See Ginsburg's Massorah, vol. i, 118, 134,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 6:9

Ezekiel 6:9. Because I am broken, &c.— Because I have broken their adulterous heart, which hath departed from me, and their adulterous eyes, which followed after their idols, &c. Houbigant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:9

9. they that escape of you shall remember me—The object of God's chastisements shall at last be effected by working in them true contrition. This partially took place in the complete eradication of idolatry from the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity. But they have yet to repent of their crowning sin, the crucifixion of Messiah; their full repentance is therefore future, after the ordeal of trials for many centuries, ending with that foretold in Zechariah 10:9; Zechariah 13:8; Zechariah... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 6:8-10

The Lord would leave a remnant alive, however, when He brought this judgment and scattered His people in captivity. They would despise themselves when they remembered how their adulterous hearts and lustful eyes had hurt their Lord. The Hebrew word gillulim, translated "idols," literally means "dung-gods." This word occurs 38 times in Ezekiel and only nine times elsewhere in the Old Testament. The remnant would remember that the Lord’s promised judgments for their sins were not vain (cf.... read more

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