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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 12:23

The prophet meets the current proverb with a counter proverb of his own: "The days are not far off, but have come near." Compare the language of the Baptist ( Matthew 3:2 ), of our Lord ( Matthew 4:17 ), of St. Paul ( Romans 13:11 ). For the true prophet there is always a near fulfilment, though there may be also an ultimate and more complete reality of which that is the pledge and earnest. The "vision" shall not fail; every word (so in the Hebrew) shall become a reality. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:21-28

As in Ezekiel 7:0, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.Ezekiel 12:22The land of Israel - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was prevalent a disregard for the true prophets, which is ever followed by a recognition of the false. First, the true prophet is rejected because it is thought that his prophecies fail. Then men persuade themselves that if the prophecy be true it respects some distant time, and that the men of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 12:22-25

Ezekiel 12:22-25 . Son of man, what is that proverb? The saying become proverbial. The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth Words of the same import with those that occur Ezekiel 12:27, and Ezekiel 11:3. Both of them the words of scoffers, who turned the grace of God into wantonness, and took encouragement from his patience and long-suffering, to despise his threatenings, as if they would never be fulfilled. Tell them therefore Who either use this proverb, or who stumble at my... 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 12:22

what . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . proverb . See the Structure, "i", on p. 1119. prolonged : i.e. protracted, or postponed. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 12:23

are at hand. The fulfilment took place five years later. effect = word: i.e. the [fulfilled] word, meaning, or purpose. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 12:21-23

Ezekiel 12:21-23. And the word, &c.— The latter part of the 22nd verse is spoken in the person of infidels, who turn the grace of God into wantonness, taking encouragement from his patience and long-suffering to despise his threatenings, as if they never would be fulfilled; and to deride his prophets, as if they had prophesied in vain. Both parts of this objection are obviated in the 23rd and 24th verses. See Waterland's Script. Vind. p. 98. Houbigant reads the clause in the 22nd verse in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:22

22. proverb—The infidel scoff, that the threatened judgment was so long in coming, it would not come at all, had by frequent repetition come to be a "proverb" with them. This skeptical habit contemporary prophets testify to (Jeremiah 17:15; Jeremiah 20:7; Zephaniah 1:12). Ezekiel, at the Chebar, thus sympathizes with Jeremiah and strengthens his testimony at Jerusalem. The tendency to the same scoff showed itself in earlier times, but had not then developed into a settled "proverb" (Isaiah... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 12:23

23. effect—literally, "the word," namely, fulfilled; that is, the effective fulfilment of whatever the prophets have spoken is at hand. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 12:21-22

The Lord asked Ezekiel about a proverb that the Jews were reciting among themselves. They were saying that the days were long and that every vision failed. They meant that the captivity that the true prophets (including Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) had predicted was a long way off and that the visions they claimed to have would turn out to be unreliable. read more