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James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:19

A BLESSED EXCHANGE‘I … will give them an heart of flesh.’ Ezekiel 11:19 I. It is God’s doing— the genesis and creation of the new heart.—‘I,’ He says, and the pronoun must be read with emphasis and decision, ‘I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.’ II. So here is a grave and serious problem for me to consider, the gravest and most serious to which I can give my thought.—Have I undergone a change in my attitude towards Him which is so... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:17-18

“Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. And they shall come there, and they will take away all its detestable things, and all its abominations from there.’ ” One day Yahweh would again act for His people, and would gather and assemble them wherever they were, and would bring them back to the land and again give it to them. And when they came they... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:19

“And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them. And they will be my people and I will be their God.” The constant change of person is an indication of Ezekiel’s excitement at the prospect. He was writing in an exalted state and exact grammar was of secondary importance. The returning people would be made as one with a... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:14-25

Ezekiel 11:14-Lamentations : . A Glimmer of Hope.— The people who, at the first deportation (597 B.C.), were allowed to remain in the land, clearly thought themselves superior to those who, like Ezekiel, had been taken to Babylon— far from Yahweh’ s land and therefore far from Yahweh ( Ezekiel 11:15, read they are far) . Ezekiel undeceives them: the future lies with the exiles, not with them. True, Yahweh had been (see mg.) to the exiles “ but little of a sanctuary”— i.e. their religious... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 11:18

They; the gathered, who assembled upon Cyrus’s proclamation first, and then again upon Darius’s proclamation; of which Ezra 1:0 and Ezra 8:0; they met together some where in the land of their captivity, and had a long journey to Jerusalem. Shall come thither; they shall overcome all difficulties, and escape dangers, and despatch the long journey, and come safely to their own land. They shall take away; abolish superstition and idolatry from the temple, Jerusalem, and from the priests. The... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 11:19

And: this may be understood causally, and so gives an account how the reformation, mentioned Ezekiel 11:18, should be effected. I; the Lord himself, and he assumeth it to himself thrice in this verse. Will give: of free grace it is that this renewed heart is in any one; length, soreness, and multiplicity of troubles will not, cannot work it, unless God frame and renew it. Will give them one heart: they were scattered abroad through the Babylonish kingdoms, were under various circumstances which... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-25

(5.) MERCY PROMISED TO THE EXILES, AND CONCLUSION OF THE VISION (Ezekiel 11:14-25)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 11:14-21. Ezekiel receives, for answer to his urgent appeal, an intimation that the doom of Jerusalem is irrevocable, but that the Lord’s people will not be forsaken. Amongst the exiles, who are contemptuously treated by dwellers in the capital, are found tokens of the broken, contrite heart which He does not despise. He will put an end to their captivity, and settle them again in the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:1-25

Let's turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel, chapter 11.Now Ezekiel is in Babylon during the time of these prophecies, but the Spirit of God transports him back to Jerusalem. And there he sees things that are transpiring in Jerusalem.Now as a background, there are some Jewish zealots who are still in Jerusalem who have rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar and they are thinking that they are going to be successful in their rebellion. There are false prophets in Jerusalem that are encouraging the people... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 11:1-25

Ezekiel 11:2 . These are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city. These twenty five men, with two princes at their head, Jaazaniah and Pelatiah, were the infidel club of the temple. They determined on having Jeremiah’s life with a storm of violence. They thwarted all his ministry, they advised the king to break the fealty he had sworn to the king of Babylon, they brought destruction upon their country, and then upon themselves. Where shall we find their fellows in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Ezekiel 11:19-20

Ezekiel 11:19-20I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you.The nature of genuine religionI. God appropriates this work to Himself. Real religion is of a Divine original: it never would have had an existence in the world without the revelation of God; and it will never have an existence in the soul without the operation of God.1. The doctrine has been much abused. It has often been so managed as to make the sinner, while in his natural state, to appear unfortunate rather... read more

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