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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:11-14

The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment.Ezekiel 6:11Smite ... stamp - Well-known modes of expressing grief.Ezekiel 6:13Sweet savor - Compare Genesis 8:21. Words, applied to the smell of sacrifices accepted by God, applied here to idol-sacrifices in irony.Ezekiel 6:14Toward Diblath - Or, “Diblathaim,” the “Diblathan” of the Moabite stone, one of the double cities of Moab (see Ezekiel 25:9) to the east of which lay the great... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:11-14

Ezekiel 6:11-14. Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot Join to thy words the gestures which are proper to express grief and concern at the wickedness of thy people, and for their calamities that will ensue. For they shall fall by the sword, &c. See note on Ezekiel 5:12. He that is far off And thinks himself out of danger, because he is out of the reach of the enemy; shall die of the pestilence The arrow that I will shoot at him. And he that is near Who stays in his own... 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 6:14

So will I : or, And I will. stretch out My hand. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 7:6 , &c.) Diblath = Diblathaim (Numbers 33:46 . Jeremiah 48:22 ). A Massoretic note records the fact that some MSS, read Riblah"; but many codices, with ten early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Diblah". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 6:14

Ezekiel 6:14. Wilderness towards Diblath— Wilderness of Diblath. Diblath was in the land of Moab (Numbers 33:46; Numbers 33:56.), and was part of that terrible wilderness mentioned by Moses, Deuteronomy 8:15. REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here repeated denunciations of vengeance against a rebellious people. 1. The prophet is commanded to set his face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, against the whole land, and the inhabitants thereof; against the greatest among them,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 6:14

14. Diblath—another form of Diblathaim, a city in Moab (Numbers 33:46; Jeremiah 48:22), near which, east and south of the Dead Sea, was the wilderness of Arabia-Deserta. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 6:11-14

The people and Ezekiel were to express derision that the sword, famine, and plague (cf. Ezekiel 5:1-3; Ezekiel 5:12; Revelation 6:4-8) would come and judge these evil abominations (cf. Ezekiel 21:14-17; Ezekiel 22:13; Ezekiel 25:6; Lamentations 2:15; Nahum 3:19). These three instruments of judgment, summarizing the full range of divine punishment (cf. 2 Samuel 24:13; Jeremiah 27:13; Jeremiah 29:17), would affect various parts of the people and touch them all. The people would recognize Yahweh... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 6:1-14

A Prophecy against the Mountain Land of IsraelThe coming judgment is here announced to the land of Israel, which is identified with the people. Ezekiel 6:8-9, following up the hint in Ezekiel 5:3-4, speak of a remnant of the nation which will be led to repentance in exile.2, 3. The physical features of the land are described, not only because their variety was in strong contrast to the monotony of the Babylonian plains where Ezekiel lived, but also, and chiefly, because they were associated... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 6:13

(13) Upon every high hill.—The various localities especially selected for idolatrous rites are enumerated one after another, to give more vividness and graphic character to the whole judgment. The words “sweet savour” are constantly applied to the commanded sacrifices to the Lord, and are here used ironically of the idol sacrifices. read more

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