Ezekiel 12:3
pack <06213> [prepare.]
belongings <03627> [stuff. or, instruments.]
By stuff our translators meant furniture or goods, as the word frequently denotes in our early writers; but the original, {keley,} has not only this sense (as in ver. 4,) but is also used for any kind of utensils or instruments whatever; and here probably denotes carriages, or other means for removing goods. This was intended to signify that the captivity was at hand.
although <07200> [it may.]
Ezekiel 12:6-16
cover <03680> [thou shalt.]
This intimated that Zedekiah should steal out of the city in the twilight, carrying on his shoulders some of his property, with his head covered, not only as in distress but to escape detection. These prophecies, which were accurately fulfilled, are supposed to have been delivered in the sixth year of Zedekiah, five years before the taking of Jerusalem.
cover <03680> [cover.]
made <05414> [for I.]
did ...... commanded <06213 06680> [I did so.]
carried out .......................... out <03318> [I brought.]
dug <02864> [digged. Heb. digged for me.]
rebellious <04805> [the rebellious.]
doing <06213> [What.]
burden <04853> [This.]
prince <05387> [prince.]
That is, Zedekiah king of Judah.
object lesson <04159> [I am.]
exile <03212 01473> [remove and go. Heb. by removing go.]
net <07568> [My net.]
This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his "eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon," and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died.
bring <0935> [and I.]
scatter <02219> [I will scatter.]
unleash <07324> [I will draw.]
But .......... survive <03498> [I will.]
number <04557 0582> [a few men. Heb. men of number.]
confess <05608> [that they.]
know <03045> [and they.]
Numbers 9:1-5
[A.M. 2514. B.C. 1490. An. Ex. Is. 2. Abib. in the first month.]
The fourteen first verses of this chapter evidently refer to a time previous to the commencement of this book; but as there is no evidence of a transposition, it is better to conclude with Houbigant, that "it is enough to know, that these books contain an account of things transacted in the days of Moses, though not in their regular or chronological order."
observe <06213> [keep.]
appointed time <04150> [his appointed.]
fourteenth <0702> [the fourteenth.]
twilight <06153> [at even. Heb. between the two evenings.]
statutes <02708> [according to all the rites.]
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observed ................................ did <06213> [they kept.]
Lord <03068> [according.]
