Ezekiel 6:4-14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

Here, I. The prophecy is directed to the mountains of Israel (Ezek. 6:1, 2); the prophet must set his face towards them. If he could see so far off as the land of Israel, the mountains of that land would be first and furthest seen; towards them therefore he must look, and look boldly and stedfastly, as the judge looks at the prisoner, and directs his speech to him, when he passes sentence upon him. Though the mountains of Israel be ever so high and ever so strong, he must set his face against... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:8-10

Judgment had hitherto triumphed, but in these verses mercy rejoices against judgment. A sad end is made of this provoking people, but not a full end. The ruin seems to be universal, and yet will I leave a remnant, a little remnant, distinguished from the body of the people, a few of many, such as are left when the rest perish; and it is God that leaves them. This intimates that they deserved to be cut off with the rest, and would have been cut off if God had not left them. See Isa. 1:9. And it... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:11-14

The same threatenings which we had before in the foregoing chapter, and in the former part of this, are here repeated, with a direction to the prophet to lament them, that those he prophesied to might be the more affected with the foresight of them. I. He must by his gestures in preaching express the deep sense he had both of the iniquities and of the calamities of the house of Israel (Ezek. 6:11): Smite with thy hand and stamp with thy foot. Thus he must make it to appear that he was in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:4

And your altars shall be desolate ,.... Being pulled down; or because the priests and worshippers would now be slain, and there would be none to attend them: and your images shall be broken ; the "images of the sun" F2 חמניכם "simulacra vestra solis", Pagninus; "solaria vestra", Vatablus; "subdiales statuae vestrae", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus. . The word for images has its derivation from heat; and were so called, either from the heat of the sun, to whose worship... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:5

And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols ,.... Which is repeated for the confirmation of it: and I will scatter your bones round about your altars : which were reckoned a pollution of them; see 2 Kings 23:14 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:6

In all your dwelling places your cities shall be laid waste ,.... Which denotes that the desolation should be general, wherever they had cities and places to dwell in; the idolatry being universal, as is said in Jeremiah 2:28 ; and the high places shall be desolate ; meaning such as were in cities; as, before, such as were built upon mountains and hills; see 2 Kings 23:5 ; that your altars may be laid waste and desolate ; as they must be, the cities being destroyed in which they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:7

And the slain shall fall in the midst of you ,.... The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some principal person that should be slain; but, as King Zedekiah was not slain when the city was taken, only his sons and his princes, it seems best to understand it of the multitude that were slain in the midst of the land, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea; and denotes how general... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:8

Yet will I leave a remnant ,.... Not in Judea, but in Babylon, and in the countries where they should be dispersed, as follows: that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations ; which was threatened to be drawn, and sent after them, Ezekiel 5:2 ; but all should not perish by if; some should escape; for this was not the time to make a full end of them: when ye shall be scattered through the countries ; that is, of Egypt, Ammon, Moab, and Assyria; for this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:9

And they that escape of you shall remember me ,.... Either my grace and mercy to them, as Jarchi; or the fear of me, as the Targum; and so return by repentance, and worship the Lord their God, being influenced by his kindness and goodness to them: even when among the nations, whither they shall be carried captive ; so that their afflictions should be sanctified and made useful to them: in prosperity men are apt to forget God; in adversity they are brought to a sense of themselves and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:10

And they shall know that I am the Lord ,.... As in Ezekiel 6:7 ; and that I have not said in vain ; either within himself, in his own purposes and decrees; so the Targum, "I have not in vain decreed in my word;' or by the mouth of the prophets: that I would do this evil unto them ; in carrying them captive, and dispersing them in other lands; for this is not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment, or of affliction. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:1-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:8-10

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 6:11-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 6:10

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