The various idolatry Before CHRIST 594. 1 ch. 9. 9. n ch. 11. 1. EZEKIEL. practised in Jerusalem. thee yet again, and thou shalt | mit the abominations which they see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. 8 Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. 9 And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and 1 behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of 13¶ He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the m Joel 2. 17. temple of the LORD, mbetween the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they P Deut. 4. 19. Worshipped Pthe sun toward the east. ° Jer. 2. 27. & 32. 33. 2 Kings 23.5, 11. Before 594. commit here? for they have CHRIST filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine s eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in inine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. Arision, whereby is shewed the preserva- tion of some, 5 and the destruction of the E cried also in mine ears Cause them that have charge ch. 9.9. rch. 5. 13. & 16.42. & 24. 13. 8 ch. 5. 11. & 7. 4,9. & 9.5, 10. t Prov. 1. 28. Is. 1. 15. Jer 11 11. & 14. 12. Mir. 3. 4. Zech. 7. 13. about 594. is turned. † Heb. 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, Heb. which and every man ta slaughter weapon in his hand; a and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side; 4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that¦ sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5 And to the others he said in tmine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: elet not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: a a weapon of his breaking in pieces. Lev. 16. 4. ch. 10. 2,6,7. Rev. 15. 6. Heb. upon his loins. beech.3.23. & 8. 4. & 10. 4. 19. & IL. 22, 23. Heb. mark a mark. c Ex. 12. 7. 9. 4. & 13. 16, 17. & 20.4. d Ps. 119. 53, 136. Rev. 7. 3. & Jer. 13. 17. 2 Cor. 12. 21. 2 Pet. 2. 8. † Heb. mine ears. ever. 10. ch. 5. 11. t ch. 36. 17. Heb. to destruction. Rev. 9. 4. 1 Pet. 4. 17. i ch. 8. 11, 12, 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but s come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. h Jer. 25. 29. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. 16. The vision of the coals of fire. Before CHRIST about 594. EZEKIEL. Before 594. The vision of the cherubim. 8 And it came to pass, while | wheels, from between the cheruthey were slaying them, and I bim; then he went in, and stood CHRIST was left, that I fell upon my beside the wheels. k Num. 14. 5. face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? & 16. 4, 22, 45. Josh. 7. 6. 1ch. 11. 13. sent forth. 7 And one cherub tstretched, t Heb forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen; who took it, and went out. 8 And there appeared in the ich. 1.8. cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings. ver. 21. 9k And when I looked, behold k ch. 1. 15. the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. 10 And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel. 1 ch. 1. 16. And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. † Heb. flesh. ch. 1. 18. 10r, they my hear were called ing, wheel, or, galgal. ch. 1. 6. 10. 15 And the cherubim were lifted up. This is P the living creature P ch.1.5. that I saw by the river of Chebar. 16 And when the cherubim 9 ch. 1. 19. went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 17 When they stood, these ch. 1. 12, 20, stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 21. Or, of life. 18 Then the glory of the LORD ver. 4. departed from off the thresholdt Hos. 9. 12. of the house, and stood over the cherubim. 19 And "the cherubim lifted up" ch. 11. 22. c ch. 1.12. a ch. 3. 12, 14. & 8. 3. ver. 24. b ch. 10. 19. 20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel y by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cheru bim. 21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; aand the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward. CHAPTER XI. The sudden death of Pelatiah. dron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it. Before CHRIST 594. 8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon iver. 9. you, saith the Lord God. 9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. 10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in mthe border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. kch. 5. 8. 12 Kings 25. Jer. 39, 6. & 19, 20, 21. 52. 10 m 1 Kings 8 65. 25. 11 This city shall not be your 2 Kings 14. caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: n Ps. 9. 16. ch. 6. 7. & 13. I 9, 14, 21, 23. • See ver.3. 12 And Pye shall know that IP am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of 1 The presumption of the princes. 4 Their the heathen that are round about sin and judgment. 13 Ezekiel complain-you. ing, God sheweth him his purpose in saving a remnant, 21 and punishing the wicked. 22 The glory of God leareth the city. 24 Ezekiel is returned to the captivity. M OREOVER a the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD's house, which looketh See ch.8.16. eastward: and behold cat the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. Or, It is 2 Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: 3 Which say, It is not near; not for us to let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the build houses near. deli. 12. 22,27. flesh. 2 Pet. 3. 4. e See Jer. 1. 13. ch. 24.3, &c. fch. 2. 2. & 3. 24. 5 ch. 7. 23. & 22.3, 4. 10, 11. Mic. 3. 3. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man. 5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them. 6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord hel, 24.3, 6. GOD; hYour slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the cal ver. 10. Or, which have not walked. Lev. 18. 3, 24, &c. Deut. 12. 30, 31. ch. 8. 10, 14, 16. Acts 5. 5. $ ch. 9. 8. 13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that r Pelatiah the ver. 1. son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? 14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. 16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Gon; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. God's glory leaveth the city. Before CHRIST 594. z l's. 51. 10. Jer. 31. 33. & 32. 39. ch. 18. 31. * Zech. 7. 12. CHRIST 594. heart, and I will put za new in their sight, and carry out Before 20 That they may walk in my b Ps. 105. 45. statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Jer 24. 7. 36. 28. & 37. 27. ch. 1. 19. & 10.19. fel. 8. 4. & 2. h ch. 43. 2. i ch. 8. 3. 594. ach. 2.3.6.7, 8. & 3. 26, 27 bls. 6. 9. & 42. 20. Jer, 5. 21. c ch. 2. 5. † Heb. as the goings forth of captivity. † Heb. Dig. for thee. 22 Then did the cherubim elift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain h which is on the east side of the city. 24 Afterwards the spirit took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me. 25 Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the LORD had shewed me." CHAPTER XII. 1 The time of Ezekiel's removing. 8 It shew trembling sheweth the Jews' desolation. 21 HE word of the LORD also Tcame unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a á rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house. 3 Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee Istuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house. 4 Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity. 5 t Dig thou through the wall 6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I haved Is. 8. 18. set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. ch. 4. 3. & 24. 24. ver. 11. 7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I tdigged Heb. through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight. 8 And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying, 9 Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, fWhat doest thou? digged for me. ch. 2. 5. fel. 17. 12. & 24. 19. The desolation of the land. Before EZEKIEL. 17 Moreover the word of the CHRIST LORD came to me, saying, 594. ch. 4. 16. Zech. 7. 14. + Heb. the fulness there f. t Ps. 107. 34. u ver. 27. ch. 11. 3. Amos 6. 3. 2 Pet. 3. 4. * Joel 2.1. Zeph. 1. 14. y ch. 13. 23. z Lam. 2. 14. a 1s. 55. 11. ver. 28 Dan. 9. 12. Luke 21. 33. b ver. 22. C2 Pet. 3. 4. d ver. 23, 25. 18 Son of man, reat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness; 19 And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from tall that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 21 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 22 Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, "The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? 23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. 24 For y there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. 25 For I am the LORD: I will speak, and a the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. 26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. CHAPTER XIII. 1 The reproof of lying prophets, 10 and their untempered mortar. 17 Of prophetesses and their pillows. ND the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before CHRIST 594. A reproof of lying prophets. 2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto at them that prophesy out of their own bhearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD; 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither † made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. a ver. 17. † Heb. them that are prophets out of their own hearts. bJer. 14. 14. Heb. walk after. IOr. & 23. 16, 26. and things which they have not seen. Cant. 2. 15. Ps. 106. 23, ch. 22. 30. 30. 1Or, breaches. † Heb. hedged the hedge. 6 They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath ever. 23. not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. 7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith it; albeit I have not spoken? 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. ch. 12. 24. & 22.28. or, council. f Ezra 2. 59, 9 And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my peo-Or, secret, ple, fneither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; hand ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 62. Neh. 7. 5. 8 ch. 20. 38. heh. 11. 10, 12. 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; Jer. 6. 14. & and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar: 11 Say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and 8.11. 1 Or, a slight wall. k cli. 22. 28. 1 ch. 38. 22. |