Ezekiel 7:8-27 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:1-15

We have here fair warning given of the destruction of the land of Israel, which was now hastening on apace. God, by the prophet, not only sends notice of it, but will have it inculcated in the same expressions, to show that the thing is certain, that it is near, that the prophet is himself affected with it and desires they should be so too, but finds them deaf, and stupid, and unaffected. When the town is on fire men do no seek for fine words and quaint expressions in which to give an account... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:16-22

We have attended the fate of those that are cut off, and are now to attend the flight of those that have an opportunity of escaping the danger; some of them shall escape (Ezek. 7:16), but what the better? As good die once as, in a miserable life, die a thousand deaths, and escape only like Cain to be fugitives and vagabonds, and afraid of being slain by every one they meet; so shall these be. I. They shall have no comfort or satisfaction in their own minds, but be in continual anguish and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:23-27

Here is, I. The prisoner arraigned: Make a chain, in which to drag the criminal to the bar, and set him before the tribunal of divine justice; let him stand in fetters (as a notorious malefactor), stand pinioned to receive his doom. Note, Those that break the bands of God's law asunder, and cast away those cords from them, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments, which they cannot break nor cast from them. The chain signified the siege of Jerusalem, or the slavery of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:8

Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee ,.... It might be very well said to be shortly, or near at hand, that the Lord would bring down his judgments upon this people; since it was some time in the sixth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity that this prophecy was delivered; and it was in the ninth year that Nebuchadnezzar came up against Jerusalem; so that it was but about three years before God would begin to pour out his fury on them: and accomplish mine anger upon thee ; not only... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:9

And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity ,.... This verse is the same with Ezekiel 7:4 ; only instead of "I will recompense thy ways upon thee", here it is, I will recompense thee according to thy ways upon thee and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee ; which have both the same sense, showing the equity and justice of the divine proceedings: and to the clause, it is added, and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth ; with the rod of his anger,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:10

Behold the day, behold, it is come ,.... That is, the day of trouble and distress, said to be near, Ezekiel 7:3 ; the morning is gone forth ; See Gill on Ezekiel 7:7 ; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded ; both these phrases may be understood of Nebuchadnezzar; he was the rod, with which the Lord smote his people, as the Assyrian monarch is called the rod of his anger, Isaiah 10:5 , and was a very proud prince, and had budded and blossomed, and had brought forth much bad... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:11

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness ,.... Some understand this of the Chaldeans, who came with great violence against the Jews, and were a rod in the hand of the Lord, to scourge them for their wickedness; and this seems to be the sense of the Targum, "spoilers are risen up to visit the wicked;' but rather the violence, oppression, and rapine of the Jews are meant, and mentioned as the cause of their punishment; for this their oppression of the poor and needy, the widow and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:12

The time is come, the day draweth near ,.... According to the Targum, the time of the recompence of iniquities, and the day of punishment of sins; of the sins of the Jews, by the Chaldean army, which no doubt is true; but it seems chiefly to refer to what follows: and the sense is, the time was coming on, in which let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn ; it is usual for the buyer of houses or lands to rejoice, because an addition is made to his estate, and especially when he has... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller shall not return to that which is sold ,.... In the year of jubilee, because he shall be in captivity: according to the law in Leviticus 25:13 , when a man had sold his possession, he returned to it again, if alive, in the year of jubilee; let it come sooner or later, within thirty, or twenty, or ten years after the sale, be it as it will: now the Babylonish captivity being seventy years, in that time there must be a jubilee; and yet those that had sold their estates, being... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:14

They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready ,.... That is, the Jews, when they understood that the enemy was approaching, blew the trumpet, to give the inhabitants of their several cities and towns warning of it; that they might gather together, provide themselves with armour, and put themselves in a posture of defence, or go forth to meet the enemy, and stop his progress: or, "blow ye the trumpet", so the Septuagint and Arabic versions; and so may be considered as an irony or... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:1-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:16-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 7:23-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 7:14

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