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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 12:18

With quaking; with commotion or shakings, as one whose apprehension of danger brings as it were an earthquake upon him; and this trembling is the same thing, but in other words. Thy water: here is no mention of delicious and generous wines, but water; so low should they be reduced, and yet not enjoy this very little, because of the great inward fears that shake them. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 12:17-20

(2.) THE SYMBOL FROM BREAD AND WATER (Ezekiel 12:17-20)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The prophet is commanded to take his ordinary meals as a man under great apprehensions. It is not, as in chap. Ezekiel 4:16, that he is thus to indicate a dreadful scarcity approaching, but rather the felt pressure of that calamity, as if the evil threatened would take away all relish for sustenance to the body (Ezekiel 12:18). Ezekiel speaks in the Word of the Lord “of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, in the country of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 12:1-28

Chapter 12The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear: for they are a rebellious house ( Ezekiel 12:1-2 ).Now, you remember, Isaiah said the same thing, "Having eyes to see, they see not; ears to hear, they hear not; least at any time they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and be saved" ( Isaiah 6:10 ). Jeremiah accused them of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 12:1-28

Ezekiel 12:3 . Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing. Bring out thy goods ready packed up, and place the baggage before thy door. As the captives on the Chebar would neither see nor hear the predictions of the burning of Jerusalem, but constantly kept their hearts on a return to their habitations, the prophet must address them by signs, and thus excite the attention of the people. Ezekiel 12:4 . At even. The evening and the morning are usual times of travelling in all hot... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 12:18

Eze 12:18 Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; Ver. 18. Eat thy bread with quaking. ] With tumult and trepidation, as a frightened and perplexed person that eateth his bread in peril of his life. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 12:18

Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 23:33, Leviticus 26:26, Leviticus 26:36, Deuteronomy 28:48, Deuteronomy 28:65, Job 3:24, Psalms 60:2, Psalms 60:3, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 102:4-1 Samuel : Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:12 - that we may eat it Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 21:25 - never Lamentations 5:9 - General Daniel 10:7 - but read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 12:17-19

17-19. Eat thy bread with quaking, etc. This is the same symbolic act, indicating the famished condition of the population of Jerusalem together with their fear and shuddering, which Ezekiel had previously performed during his long and toilsome siege of the mimic city (Ezekiel 4:9-12; Ezekiel 4:16). Recent events may have made the repetition of this picture-sermon more impressive than it had been previously. Desolate from all that is therein [literally, from its fullness ], because,... read more

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