Ezekiel 6:1--9:11
word <01697> [And the word.]
This is a new prophecy, and was probably given after the 430 days of his lying on his left and right side were accomplished. By Israel here Judea is simply meant; not the ten tribes, who had long before been carried captive.
turn <07760> [set.]
mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
Mountains .................... mountains <02022> [Ye.]
Mountains .................... mountains <02022> [to the mountains.]
destroy <06> [and I will.]
incense altars <02553> [images. or, sun-images. and so.]
will ... down <05307> [and I.]
I will place <05414> [lay. Heb. give.]
dwellings <04186> [all your.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
high places <01116> [and the.]
altars <04196> [your altars.]
works <04639> [your works.]
slain <02491> [slain.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
will .... I ... crushed <07665> [I am.]
eyes <05869> [their eyes.]
exiled ............................ loathe <07617 06962> [they shall.]
They shall humble themselves on account of their abominations, forsake their idolatry, and worship ME alone: and this they have done from the Babylonish captivity to the present day.
Clap <05221> [Smite.]
Ah <0253> [Alas.]
fall <05307> [fall.]
far <07350> [far off.]
by ...... vent <03615> [thus.]
dead <02491> [when.]
high <07311> [upon.]
stretch out <05186> [will I.]
desolate waste .... wilderness <08077 04057 04923> [more desolate than the wilderness. or, desolate from the wilderness. Diblath.]
[Almon-diblathaim.]
[Beth-diblathaim.]
Diblath was a city of Moab and appears from parallel passages to have been situated between Dibon and Abarim or Nebo.
land <0127> [unto.]
end ... end <07093> [An end.]
Two or three MSS. read {ketz ba, ba hakketz,} "the end cometh, come is the end;" which is supported by all the ancient versions.
release <07971> [and I.]
judge <08199> [will judge.]
I will .... accountable <05414> [recompense. Heb. give.]
<05869> [mine.]
suffer <05414> [but.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
end ............ end <07093> [An end.]
This is similar to the second verse; but there is a paronomasia, or play upon words, here, deserving of notice: {ketz ba, ba hakketz, haikeetz ailayich,} "the end cometh, come is the end: it waketh for thee." {Ketz,} is an end; {haikeetz,} is to wake or watch.
comes .... comes .... awakened against ....... you ..... coming <06974 0935> [watcheth for thee. Heb. awaketh against thee.]
comes .... comes ..... against ........... coming <0935> [behold.]
Doom <06843> [morning.]
time <06256> [the time.]
day <03117> [the day.]
shouts <01906> [sounding again. or, echo.]
pour <08210> [pour.]
vent <03615> [accomplish.]
judge <08199> [and I.]
behavior .................... know <01870 03045> [thee. Heb. upon thee. and ye.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
coming <0935> [behold, it.]
Doom <06843> [the morning.]
staff <04294> [the rod.]
pride <02087> [pride.]
Violence <02555> [Violence.]
crowd <01995> [none.]
crowd <01995> [multitude. or, tumult. theirs. or, their tumultuous persons. neither.]
time <06256> [time.]
customer <07069> [let.]
wrath <02740> [for.]
seller <04376> [the seller.]
both .... alive ....................... life <02416> [they were yet alive. Heb. their life were yet among the living. neither.]
iniquity <05771> [in, etc. or, whose life is in his iniquity. the iniquity of his life. Heb. his iniquity.]
blown <08628> [have.]
anger <02740> [for.]
Their survivors <06403> [they.]
doves <03123> [like.]
moan <01993> [mourning.]
hands <03027> [hands.]
urine <04325 03212> [be weak as water. Heb. go into water.]
<02296> [shall also.]
terror <06427> [and horror.]
discard <07993> [shall cast.]
filth <05079> [removed. Heb. for a separation, or uncleanness. they shall not.]
[it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity. or, their iniquity is their stumbling-block.]
beauty <06643> [the beauty.]
made <06213> [but.]
rendered ....................... render ... filthy <05079 07760 05414> [set it far from them. or, made it unto them an unclean thing.]
face <06440> [face.]
Vandals <06530> [robbers. or, burglars.]
chain <07569> [a chain.]
land <0776> [for.]
bring <0935> [I will bring.]
possession <03423> [they shall.]
That is, "the Chaldeans shall possess the houses of the Jews." The antecedents of pronouns are thus frequently understood in Hebrew poetry.
arrogance <01347> [I will also.]
arrogance <01347> [the pomp.]
That is, the magnificence of their greatest and haughtiest princes.
be desecrated <02490 06942> [their holy places shall be defiled. or, they shall inherit their holy places.]
Terror <07089> [Destruction. Heb. Cutting off. and they.]
Disaster ... disaster ... come <01943 0935> [Mischief shall.]
seek <01245> [then.]
instruction <08451> [but.]
elders <02205> [ancients.]
king <04428> [king.]
deal <06213> [I will.]
justice <04941> [according to their deserts. Heb. with their judgments.]
know <03045> [and they.]
sixth year .... sixth <08141 08345> [in the sixth year.]
elders <02205> [and the.]
hand <03027> [that the.]
I watched <07200> [I beheld.]
glow <02830> [amber.]
Amber is a hard, inflammable, bituminous substance, of a beautiful yellow colour, very transparent, and susceptible of an exquisite polish. When rubbed it is highly endowed with electricity; a name which the moderns have formed from its Greek name [elektron.] But, as amber becomes dim as soon as it feels the fire, and is speedily consumed, it is probable that the original {chashmal,} which Bochart derives from the Chaldee {nechash,} copper, and {melala,} gold, was a mixed metal, similar to that which the Greeks called [elektron,] electrum, as the LXX. and Vulgate render, from its resemblance to amber in colour.
stretched out <07971> [he put.]
wind <07307> [the spirit.]
door <06607> [to the door.]
statue <05566> [the image.]
provokes <07069> [provoketh.]
look up ....... looked up <05375> [lift.]
gate <08179> [at the.]
see ........................... see <07200> [seest.]
great ...................... greater ... than <01419> [even.]
far <07368> [that I.]
great ...................... greater ... than <01419> [greater.]
practicing <06213> [that they.]
figure <08403> [and behold.]
These images portrayed on the wall were no doubt the objects of Egyptian idolatry, the ox, ape, crocodile, ibis, beetle, etc., as we find those idols were painted on the walls of the tombs of kings and nobles.
figure <08403> [every.]
Seventy <07657> [seventy.]
Shaphan <08227> [Shaphan.]
men ........................ each <0376> [every.]
see ................................. see <07200> [hast.]
elders <02205> [ancients.]
dark ..... chamber <02822 02315> [in the.]
see ................................. see <03068 07200> [The Lord seeth.]
greater <01419> [greater.]
north <06828> [toward.]
see ........ see <07200> [Hast.]
greater ... than <01419> [greater.]
inner <06442> [the inner.]
entrance <06607> [at the door.]
twenty-five <02568> [about.]
backs <0268> [with their.]
facing <06440> [their faces.]
worshiping <07812> [and they.]
It seems that the Jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun.
trivial <07043> [Is it a light, etc. or, Is there any thing lighter than to commit, etc. for.]
putting <07971> [they put.]
So the Vulgate has, {applicant ramum ad nares suas,} "they apply the branch to their nose;" which Jerome explains by "a branch of the palm tree with which they adored the idols;" and it seems plainly to allude to the Magian fire-worshippers, who, Strabo tells us, held a little bunch of twigs in their hand, when praying before the fire.
act <06213> [will I also.]
shouted <07121> [and though.]
shouted <07121> [cried.]
destruction <06486> [Cause.]
six <08337> [six.]
upper <05945> [the higher.]
faces <06437> [lieth. Heb. is turned. slaughter weapon. Heb. weapon of his breaking in pieces. and one.]
kit <07083> [ink-horn.]
{Keseth,} (in Chaldee, {kista,} Syriac, {kesto,} Ethiopic, {kasut,}) denotes a bottle, or vessel to hold any fluid; and being here united to {sophair,} a writer, is not improperly rendered as an ink-horn: so one of the editions of Aquila, [melandocheion,] and Vulgate, {atramentarium.} Dr. Shaw informs us, that among the Moors, "the {Hojas,} i.e., writers or secretaries, suspend their ink-horns in their girdles."
side <04975> [by his side. Heb. upon his loins. beside.]
[set a mark. Heb. mark a mark.]
moan <0584> [that sigh.]
listened <0241> [hearing. Heb. ears.]
through <05674> [Go.]
wipe ... out <04889> [utterly. Heb. to destruction. old.]
touch <05066> [but.]
Begin ....... began <02490> [and begin.]
Old men ............................... elders <02205> [at the.]
threw <05307> [that I.]
Ah <0162> [Ah.]
sin <05771> [The iniquity.]
land ..................... land <0776> [and the land.]
[full of. Heb. filled with. perverseness. or, wresting of judgment.]
Lord ... abandoned ...... Lord <03068 05800> [The Lord hath.]
eye <05869> [mine.]
repay <05414> [but.]
back word <07725 01697> [reported the matter. Heb. returned the word. I have.]
