Ezekiel 11:15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-21

Prophecy was designed to exalt every valley as well as to bring low every mountain and hill (Isa. 40:4), and prophets were to speak not only conviction to the presumptuous and secure, but comfort to the despised and desponding that trembled at God's word. The prophet Ezekiel, having in the former part of this chapter received instructions for the awakening of those that were at ease in Zion, is in these verses furnished with comfortable words for those that mourned in Babylon and by the rivers... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred ,.... Or, "of thy redemption" F12 אנשי גאלתך "viri redemptionis tua", Montanus, Heb. "viri redempturae tuae", Piscator. ; to whom the right of redemption of his lands and possessions belonged, as it did to those that were next akin. The Septuagint, by a mistake of the word, render it, "the men of thy captivity"; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions, following them. It is true those were his fellow captives who... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 11:15

Get you far from the Lord - These are the words of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against those of Israel who had been carried away to Babylon with Jeconiah. Go ye far from the Lord: but as for us, the land of Israel is given to us for a possession, we shall never be removed from it, and they shall never return to it. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-20

A suffering people scorned by man and comforted by God. "Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren," etc. I. A SUFFERING PEOPLE SCORNED BY THEIR BRETHREN WHO THOUGHT THEMSELVES SECURE . ( Ezekiel 11:15 .) A considerable number of the fellow countrymen of Ezekiel were, like him, suffering the privations and sorrows of exile; and the people that still remained in Jerusalem, instead of pitying the exiles, despised and insulted them.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 11:15

The men of thy kindred, etc. The full force of the phrase can hardly be understood without remembering that the word for "kindred" implies the function and office of a goel, the redeemer and avenger of those among his relations who had suffered wrong (Le 25:25, 48; Numbers 5:8 ), and the point of the revelation is that Ezekiel is to find those who have this claim on him, his true "brethren," not only or chiefly in his natural relations in the priesthood, but in the companions of his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 11:15

Thy kindred - The original word is derived from a root, suggesting the ideas of “redeeming” and “avenging” as connected with the bond of “kindred.” The word, therefore, conveys here a special reproach to the proud Jews, who have been so ready to cast off the claims of blood-relationship, and at the same time a hope of restoration to those who have been rudely thrown aside. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 11:14-15

Ezekiel 11:14-15. Again the word of the Lord came unto me A seasonable word, to stop the mouths of the insulting Jerusalemites, and to encourage the captives at Babylon. Son of man, thy brethren The men of thy kindred, or, of thy redemption, as גאלתן may be rendered: that is, thy fellow-captives, as Bishop Newcome reads it; unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get ye far from the Lord, &c. The Jews who were left in Judea thought themselves more the favourites of God... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14-25

Hope for the future (11:14-25)Those left in Jerusalem thought they were God’s favoured people. They thought their security was guaranteed because they lived in the city where his temple was situated. They looked upon the exiles as having been cast off by God, forsaken and unclean in a foreign land (14-15). To the contrary, Ezekiel points out that the exiles are God’s favoured people, the remnant whom he has preserved. When they repent of their idolatry and rebellion, he will bring them back to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 11:15

thy brethren . . . thy brethren. Figure of speech Epizeuxis. App-6 . kindred = redemption. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 11:15-16

Ezekiel 11:15-16. Son of man, &c.— Son of man, thy brethren, the men who are captives with thee, and all the house of Israel; all those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem say, They are vanished far from the Lord; the land is given to us in possession. Ezekiel 11:16. Thou shalt say these things concerning them; Thus, &c. Houbigant; who, instead of, As a little sanctuary, reads, A sanctuary in a little time. He would be to them of the captivity what he had formerly been to the whole... read more

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