Ezekiel 6:9And ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.God’s hand in judgmentYou look at second causes, and think it is Nebuchadnezzar that smites you, but you shall be made to know he is but the staff; it is the hand of the Lord that smiteth you, and who knows the weight of His hand? (M. Henry.) read more
Eze 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. Ver. 9. And they that escape of you shall remember me. ] Here beginneth that true repentance never to be repented of. Psalms 22:27 ; Psa 20:7 Because... read more
Eze 6:10 And they shall know that I [am] the LORD, [and that] I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. Ver. 10. And they shall know. ] By woeful experience. He that trembleth not in sinning shall be crushed to pieces in feeling, said blessed Bradford. And that I have not said in vain. ] In terrorem only, read more
remember: Leviticus 26:40, Leviticus 26:41, Deuteronomy 4:29-Obadiah :, Deuteronomy 30:1-Leviticus :, Psalms 137:1, Jeremiah 51:50, Daniel 9:2, Daniel 9:3, Zechariah 10:9 I am: Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 16:43, Psalms 78:40, Psalms 78:40, Isaiah 7:13, Isaiah 43:24, Isaiah 63:10, Jeremiah 3:6, Jeremiah 3:13, Amos 2:13 their eyes: Ezekiel 14:4-Judges :, Ezekiel 20:7, Ezekiel 20:24, Ezekiel 20:28, Ezekiel 23:14-Nehemiah :, Numbers 15:39, 2 Kings 16:10, 2 Peter 2:14 they shall: They shall humble... read more
Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Jeremiah 5:12-2 Chronicles :, Jeremiah 44:28, Daniel 9:12, Zechariah 1:6 Reciprocal: Jeremiah 10:18 - that Ezekiel 5:13 - spoken Ezekiel 12:25 - I will Ezekiel 17:21 - shall know read more
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.Shall remember — So as to turn unto me.Broken — I am much grieved.Whorish heart — Idolatrous hearts depart from God, as an adulterous wife departs from her... read more
And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.In vain — Either without cause, the sufferers gave him just cause to pronounce that evil; or without effect. Their sins where the cause, and their destruction is the effect of their sufferings. read more
9. “And they… shall remember me… when I have broken for myself their whorish heart.” Havernick and Keil. This seems a better reading than that of the R.V., “I have been broken.” Israel went into Babylonian captivity a nation prone to fall constantly into idolatry. It came out of that fiery furnace a purified people with the whorish heart broken and every polytheistic tendency burned out of it. Up to this point their whole history had been a series of national or tribal apostasies from the... read more
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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 6:1-14
Ezekiel 6:3-4 . I will destroy your high places, all the necessaries of idolatry. במות bomoth, Βουνοι , thence Βωμοι . Your high altars. In Montfaucon’s Antiquities we have various views of heathen altars, all the devices of men. The druids preferred a tabular rock unhewn, supported by three pillars, usually called cromlechs. They had no idols; but the apostate jews had their idols in some adjacent temple or covering. Ezekiel 6:5 . I will scatter your bones round about your altars. ... read more