& 1. a Job 2. 13. Pa. 137. 1. upon me. 15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and "I sat where 1 The type of a siege. CHAPTER IV. Under the type of a siege is shewed the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity. 9 By the provision of the siege, is shewed the hardness of the fam ine. a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: ch 1,348 they sat, and remained there aston-THOU also, son of man, take thee ⚫ ch. 33.7,8,9. p La. 52. 8. & 17 Son of man, I have made thee Pa watchman unto the house of Is5.10. & 62.6. rael: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from Jer. 6. 17. q ch. 33. 6. John 8. 21, 21. me. 18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; "but thou hast delivered thy soul. 20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his frighteousness, Heb. right and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. + ver. 14. eh. 1. 3. u ch. 8. 4. zeb. 1. 28. y ch. 1. 1. ach. 1.28. ach. 2. 2 beh. 4. 8. e ch. 24. 27. Luke 1. 20, 22. +Heb. a man reproving. deh. 2, 5, 6, 7. 33.22. fver. 11. 21 Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. 22 And the hand of the LORD was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth "into the plain, and I will there talk with thee." 23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: 2 and I fell on my face. 24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. 25 But thou, O son of man, behold, b they shall put bands upon thec, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them fa reprover: dfor they are a rebellious house. Defore CHRIST 505. 2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it Or, chief round about. 3 Moreover take thou unto thee | an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity. 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: bso shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee t each day for a year. Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it. leaders, eb. 21. 22. Or, a fat plate,or, dies, ach. 12. 6, 11. & 24. 24, 27. about 975. Beginning from 1 Kim. 12.23. Ending about 585. b Num. 14. 34 + Heb. a day for a year, a day for a year. ech. 8. 25. Heb. from thy side to thy side. 8 And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee t from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege. 9 T Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put Or, spelt. them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side; three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it. 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shalt thou drink. 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight. 13 And the LORD said, Even thus 27 But when I speak with thee, Id shall the children of Israel eat their & Hos. 9.3. ch. 24. 27. & will open thy mouth, and thou shalt defiled bread among the Gentiles, say unto them, fThus saith the Lord whither I will drive them. GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: 8 for they are a rebellious house. Ever. 9, 26. ch. 12. 2, 3. The type of the prophet's hair. Before CHRIST 595. g Deut. 14, 3. Is. 65. 4. h Lev. 26. 26. 1 Lev. 26, 89. 501. EZEKIEL. God's judgments upon Jerusalem. which dieth of itself, or is torn in 16 Moreover he said unto me, Son 17 That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and I consume away for their iniquity. CHAPTER V. 1 Under the type of hair, 5 is shewed the ND thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's & Seo Lev. 21. razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. 5. Is. 7. 20. ch. 41. 20. bver. 12. ech. 4. 1. deh. 4. 8, . Jer. 40. 6. & 52. 16. 2 b Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when d the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them. 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in + Hob, wings, thy f skirts. fJer. 41. 1, 2, 4 Then take of them again, and fcast them into the midst of the fire, &c. & 44.14. and burn them in the fire; for there of shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. ch. 16. 47. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. 12T A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and PI pJer. 9. 16. will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. 13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. 15 So it shall be a reproach and a 17 So will I send upon you famine 6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judg-1 ments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept Jer. 2. 10.11. my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you; 8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. 2 Son of man, set thy face toward ach. 20, 48, à the bmountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, 3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the rivers and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. A remnant shall be saved. + Heb. give. EZEKIEL Before 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses CHRIST of the children of Israel before their 504. idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. 6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. ⚫ ver. 13. eh. 7. 4,9. & 11. 10, 12. & 12. 15. f Jer. 41. 28. eh. 5. 2,12. & 12. 16. & 14 22. P. 78. 40. Is. 7.13.& 43, 24. & 63. 10. h Num. 15.39. ch. 20. 7, 24. i Lev. 28. 39. Job 42. 6. ch 20, 43. & 36. 31. ken. 21. 14. 1 ch. 5. 12. m ch. 5. 13, n ver. 7. o Jer. 2. 20. pHos. 4. 13. q Is. 57.5. r Is. 5. 25. Or, desolate 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 8Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries. 9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and h with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them. 11 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite k with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. 12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: m thus will I accomplish my fury upon them. 13 Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, Pin all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols. 14 So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desfrom the wil-olate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all Num.23.46. their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD. derness. Jer. 48. 22. CHAPTER VII. 1 The final desolation of Israel. 16 The mournful repentance of them that escape. 20 The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations. 28 Under the type of a chain is shewed their miserable captivity. The final desolation of Israel. rael: "An end, the end is come upon 5 Thus saith the Lord God; An 7 The morning is come unto thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains. Before CHRIST 594. a ver. 3, 6. Amos 8. 2. Mats. 24. 6 13. 14. bver. 8, 9. Heb.give, ever. ch. 5. 11. & 8. 18. & 9. 10. dvor. 27. eh. 6. 7. & 12. 29. Heb. awak oth against thee. ver. 10. fver. 12. Zeph. 1. 14, 15 Or, echo. geh. 20. 8, 21. 8 Now will I shortly & pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: hand I will hver. 3. judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. 9 And imine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; kand ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. iver. 4. +Heb. upon thee. k ver. 4. 10 Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; Iver. 7. the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. 11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: "neither shall there be wailing for them. 12° The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof. MOREOVER the word of the all of them mourning, every one for Lam. 1. 20. ch. 5, 12. ach. 0.8. Is. 13. 7. Jer. 6. 24. ch. 21. 7. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and +Heb. go into the Lord GOD unto the land of Is-all knees shall t be weak as water. water. Before CHRIST with sackcloth, and thorror shall 591. cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. Is, 3. 24. & 15. 2, 3. Jer. 49. 37. Amos 8, 10. t Ps. 55. 5. † Heb. for a separation, or, uncleanness. Prov. 11. 4. Zeph, 1. 18. Or. because their inig uity is their stumblingblock. The various idolatry 18 They shall also gird themselves | hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and fthe spirit lifted me up CHRIST between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; b where was the seat of the h Jer. 7.30. & image of jealousy, which i provoketh to jealousy. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their "silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity. 20 T As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: Y but they made the images of their abominach. 14. 3. 4. tions and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. & 41. 12. y Jer. 7.30. | Orr made it unto them an unclean thing. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my Or, burglars. secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. 2 Kin.21.16. ch. 9. 9. & 11. 6. Or, they shall inherit their holy places. + Heb. Cutting off. Deut. 32.23. Jer. 4, 20. b Ps. 71. 9. Lam. 2. 9. eh. 20. 1, 3. ↑ Heb. with their judg mento. .ver. 4. 594. 20.1. & 33.31. b ch. 1. 3. & 3.22 23 T Make a chain: for 2 the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence. 24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled. 25 f Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; bthen shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. geh. 11. 1, 24. & 40. 2. 32. 34. ch. 5. 11. 21. 4 And, behold, the glory of the God Deut. 32. 16, of Israel was there, according to the vision that I k saw in the plain. 5 T Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore unto me, Son of inan, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 7 T 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 behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. Il And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. keh. 1. 28 & 3. 22, 23. 27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do 12 Then said he unto me, Son of unto them after their way, and tac-man, hast thou seen what the ancording to their deserts will I judge cients of the house of Israel do in the them; and they shall know that I dark, every man in the chambers of am the LORD. his imagery? for they say, The 1ch. 9.2. LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. CHAPTER VIII. 1 Ezekiel, in a vision of God at Jerusalem, 5 is shewed the image of jealousy, 7 the chambers of imagery, 13 the mourners for Tammuz, 15 the worshippers to wards the sun. 18 God's wrath for their idolatry. A came to the month, in the ND it came to pass in the sixth fifth day of the month, as I sat in ch. 14. 1.& mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that b the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. 2 Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, d as the colour of amber. practised in Jerusalem. EZEKIEL Before temple of the LORD, and their faces CHRIST toward the east; and they worshipped P the sun toward the east. 504. p Deut. 4. 19. 2 Kings 23. 5. 11. Job 31. 26. Jer. 44. 17. Or, Is there Any thing lighter than to commit! q ch. 9.9. zeh. 5. 13, & 16.42.&24.13. a ch.5.11. & 7. 4,9. &9.5, 10. + Prov. 1. 28. Is. 1. 15. 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have 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 eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though Jer. 11.11.& they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. 14. 12. Mie. 3. 4. Zeeb. 7. 13. t Heb, which is turned. CHAPTER IX. 14 vision, whereby is shewed the pres ervation of some, 5 and the destruction the rest. 8 God cannot be entreated for them. a about 594. HE cried also in mine cars with loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand. 2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, f which lieth toward the north, and every man ta slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn t by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar. + Heb. a weapon of his breaking in pieces. a Lev. 18, 4. ch. 10, 2, 6.7. Rev. 15. 6. ↑ Heh, upon his loins. b See ch. 3.23. 4, 18. & 11. 22, 23, 3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, &8. 4. & 10. 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 t set a mark upon the foreheads of the men d that sigh and that cry for all the 9. & 13. 16, abominations that be done in the midst thereof. + Heb. mark a mark. e Ex. 12. 7. Rev. 7. 3, & 17. & 20. 4. Ps. 119. 53, 138. Jer. 13. 17. 5 And to the others he said in tmine hearing, Go ye after him 2 Cor. 12. 21. through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: 2 Pet. 2. 8. + Heb. mine ears. e ver. 10. ch, 5. 11. 12 Chr. 36.17. + Heb. to destruction. g Rev. 9. 4. h Jer. 25. 29. 1 Pet. 4. 17. Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and h begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. 7 And he said unto them, Defile the i ch. 8. 11, 12, house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city. 16. 8 T And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, kNum. 14. 6. that I k fell upon my face, and cried, &18.4,22,45. and said, 1Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem? Josh. 7. 6. 1ch, 11, 13. 9 Then said he unto me, The iniq Vision of the coals of fire. uity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is f full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, "The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and "the LORD seeth not. 10 And as for me also, mine Peye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. 11 And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, treported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me. 4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the bright-fl ness of the LORD's glory. 5 And the sound of the cherubim's wings was heard even to the outer court, as h the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 6 And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the inan clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 7 And one cherub t stretched 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. |