Ezekiel 24:1--25:17
ninth year <08141 08671> [A.M. 3414. B.C. 590. the ninth year.]
This was the ninth year of Zedekiah, about Thursday, January 30, A.M. 3414, the very day in which Nebuchadnezzar began the siege of Jerusalem.
write <03789> [write.]
very ............. very <06106> [of this.]
Recite <04911> [utter.]
rebellious <04805> [the rebellious.]
Set on .... set ... on <08239> [Set.]
choice <04005> [the choice.]
heap up <01754> [burn. or, heap.]
Woe <0188> [Woe.]
pot <05518> [to the pot.]
removed <03318> [bring.]
lot <01486> [let no.]
blood <01818> [her blood.]
pour <08210> [she poured.]
anger <02534> [it might.]
placed <05414> [I have set.]
Woe <0188> [Woe.]
pile <04071> [I will.]
spices <07543> [spice.]
Set ... empty <05975 07386> [set it.]
uncleanness <02932> [that the filthiness.]
The pot was Jerusalem; the flesh, the inhabitants in general: every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder, Zedekiah, his family, and princes; the bones, the soldiers; the fire and water, the calamities they were to suffer; and the setting on of the pot, the commencement of the siege.
tried ... patience <03811> [wearied.]
thick <07227> [her great.]
rot ......... rot <02457> [her scum.]
The pot being polluted with the scum, must be heated, melted, and even burned with fire till purified; that is, Jerusalem shall be entirely levelled with the ground, as nothing short of this will purify it from the relics of its idolatrous abominations.
uncleanness ...................... uncleanness <02932> [thy filthiness.]
cleanse ............ cleansed <02891> [because.]
anger <02534> [till I.]
Lord .................................. sovereign <03068 0136> [the Lord.]
pity <02347> [neither will I spare.]
conduct <01870> [according to thy ways.]
delight <04261> [the desire.]
jolt <04046> [with a.]
mourn <05594> [yet.]
tears <01832> [thy tears.]
shed <0935> [run. Heb. go.]
Groan ... silence <01826 0602> [Forbear to cry. Heb. Be silent.]
perform <06213> [make.]
rites <02280> [bind.]
put <07760> [put.]
cover <05844> [cover.]
lip <08222> [lips. Heb. upper lip, and so ver.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
food <0582 03899> [the bread of men.]
{Lechem anoshim,} not "the bread of mourners," as some render, but "the bread of other men," i.e., such as was commonly sent to mourners on such occasions by their friends.
evening <06153> [and at.]
desecrate <02490> [I will.]
pride <01347> [the excellency.]
delight <04261> [the desire.]
in which ....... life's passion <04263 05315> [that which your soul pitieth. Heb. the pity of your soul. your sons.]
rot <04743> [but.]
groan <05098> [and mourn.]
Ezekiel <03168> [Ezekiel.]
happens <0935> [when.]
know <03045> [ye shall.]
stronghold <04581> [their strength.]
concern .... lives <05315 04853> [that whereupon they set their minds. Heb. the lifting up of their soul. their sons.]
speak <06310> [thy.]
object lesson <04159> [shalt be.]
toward <06440> [thy face.]
Son ....... Ammonites <01121> [the Ammonites.]
Say .................... said <0559> [thou saidst.]
tribes <01121> [men. Heb. children.]
Josephus expressly states, that five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar turned his arms against the Ammonites and Moabites, and entirely subjugated them; and it is probable, that the Arabs, and other nations east of Judah, then took possession of their cities, and enjoyed the fruits of their land. The country of Moab and Ammon is now inhabited by the Bedouin Arabs; where they pasture their flocks, and, no doubt, make the ruins of Rabbah, their one proud capital, "a stable for camels," and other cattle. See Note on 2 Sa 12:26.
east <06924> [of the east.]
eat <0398> [they shall eat.]
Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
[Rabbath.]
pasture <05116> [a stable.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
clapped <04222> [thou hast.]
hands <03027> [hands. Heb. hand. stamped.]
feet <07272> [feet. Heb. foot. rejoiced.]
intense <05315> [heart. Heb. soul.]
stretched <05186> [I will stretch.]
hand <05414> [and will.]
<0957> [a spoil. or, meat.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
Seir <08165> [Seir.]
house <01004> [the house.]
flank <03802> [side. or, shoulder. Beth-jeshimoth.]
Baal Meon <01186> [Baal-meon.]
Ammonites .... tribes ........ Ammonites <01121> [the men.]
Ammonites .... tribes ........ Ammonites <01121> [with the Ammonites. or, against the children of Ammon.]
remembered among <02142> [may.]
execute <06213> [I will.]
Moab <04124> [upon.]
know <03045> [and they.]
Edom <0123> [Because.]
vengeance ............... vengeance <05359 05358> [taking vengeance. Heb. revenging, revengement.]
stretch <05186> [I will also.]
kill <03772> [and will.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
Dedan .... die .... sword <05307 02719 01719> [of Dedan shall fall by the sword. or, shall fall by the sword unto Dedan.]
hand <03027> [by the hand.]
This was fulfilled by the Maccabees, who not only entirely subjugated them, but obliged them to receive circumcision.
experience <03045> [and they shall know.]
Philistines <06430> [Because.]
exacted <06213> [dealt.]
destroy <04889> [to destroy.]
unrelenting hostility <0342 05769> [for the old hatred. or, with perpetual hatred.]
stretch <05186> [I will stretch.]
These predictions against the Philistines, Edomites, and others, seem to have been fulfilled by by Nebuchadnezzar during the siege of Tyre. Berosus states that he subdued Syria, Arabia, Phoenicia, and Egypt; and now their very names have no existence, except in history.
Cherethites <03774> [Cherethims.]
[Cherethites. and destroy.]
seacoast <03220> [sea coasts. or, haven of the sea.]
exact <06213> [I will.]
vengeance .................... vengeance <05360> [vengeance. Heb. vengeances. they shall.]
