Ezekiel 11:12-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 11:1-13

We have here, I. The great security of the prince's of Jerusalem, notwithstanding the judgments of God that were upon them, The prophet was brought, in vision, to the gate of the temple where these princes sat in council upon the present arduous affairs of the city: The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of the Lord's house, and behold twenty-five men were there. See how obsequious the prophet was to the Spirit's orders and how observant of all the discoveries that were made... read more

Matthew Henry

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 11:12

And ye shall know that I am the Lord ,.... See Gill on Ezekiel 11:10 ; for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments ; which is the reason why the Lord would judge them on the border of Israel, and deliver them up into the hands of strangers; nor can he be thought to act the severe and cruel part to them, when this their disobedience is observed; since they had his statutes and his judgments made known to them, which were not known to other nations, and yet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:13

And it came to pass when I prophesied ,.... Or, "as I prophesied" F9 כהנבאי "me prophetante", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus. ; that is, while he was prophesying, or declaring the above things from the mouth of the Lord, concerning the slaughter of the Jews by the sword, and the captivity of the rest: that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died ; one of the princes of the people, and was among the five and twenty men the prophet saw at the door of the east gate of the temple, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:14

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying ,.... In answer to his prayer. The Targum calls it, "the word of prophecy from the Lord;' this was by way of comfort to the captives in Babylon, as the former was by way of threatening to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:16

Therefore say, thus saith the Lord God ,.... Since they were so insulted and ill treated by their brethren the Jews: although I have cast them afar off among the Heathen ; both the ten tribes, even all the house of Israel, who were carried into Assyria, and placed in the cities of the Medes, in Halath and Habor, by the river Gozan, 2 Kings 17:6 ; and those of the Jews in Jeconiah's captivity, among whom were Ezekiel, and his brethren, and his kindred: and although I have scattered... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:17

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the people ,.... The Babylonians, Medes, and Persians, where they had been carried captive: and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered ; that is, out of Chaldea and Media, out of which they should come in a body, and not singly, or in small numbers, as they did when Cyrus issued out his proclamation: and I will give you the land of Israel ; not only the Jews of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:18

And they shall come thither ,.... That those of the captivity shall come to the land of Israel, they or their posterity: and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof ; the idols of the nations, that had been there introduced, detestable to God and all good men: and all the abominations thereof from thence ; idols, as before, even all of them, so that idolatry should be wholly rooted out; this had its accomplishment under Zerubbabel, Ezra, Haggai, &c.; when the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 11:19

And I will give them one heart ,.... In opposition to a divided heart, Hosea 10:2 ; divided between the true God and idols, wavering and halting between two opinions, sometimes serving God, and sometimes Baal; a heart to pursue one way of worship, and to serve the Lord with one shoulder or consent, Jeremiah 32:40 ; a heart sincere to God and man, in opposition to a double or hypocritical one, Psalm 12:2 ; a heart single to the honour and glory of God, and firmly attached to his word... read more

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