Eze 12 | TSK | STEP | Under the type of Ezekiels's removing, is shewn the captivity of Zedekiah. Ezekiel's trembling shews the Jews' desolation. The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reproved. The speediness of the vision.

Ezekiel 12

1 Under the type of Ezekiels's removing,

8 is shewn the captivity of Zedekiah.

17 Ezekiel's trembling shews the Jews' desolation.

21 The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reproved.

26 The speediness of the vision.

thou.

2:3,6-8; 3:9,26,27; 17:12; 24:3; 44:6; De 9:7,24; 31:27; Ps 78:40

Isa 1:23; 30:1,9; 65:2; Jer 4:17; 5:23; 9:1-6; Da 9:5-9; Ac 7:51,52

which.

De 29:4; Isa 6:9,10; 29:9-12; 42:19,20; Jer 5:21; Mt 13:13,14

Mr 4:12; 8:17,18; Lu 8:10; Joh 9:39-41; 12:40; Ac 28:26,27

Ro 11:7,8; 2Co 3:14; 4:3,4; Eph 4:18; 2Th 2:10,11

for.

2:5

prepare.

10-12; 4:1-17; Jer 13:1-11; 18:2-12; 19:1-15; 27:2

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.

it may.

33:11; De 5:29; 32:29; Ps 81:13; Jer 18:11; 25:4-7; 26:3; 36:3,7

Lu 13:8,9,34; 20:13; 2Ti 2:25

at even.

12; 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; 52:7

they that go forth into. Heb. the goings forth of.

Dig thou. Heb. Dig for thee.This was to shew that Zedekiah should escape from the city through a breach in the wall.

2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:2-4

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.

1Sa 28:8; 2Sa 15:30; Job 24:17

for I.

11; 4:3; 24:24; Isa 8:18; 20:2-4

I did so.

2:8; 24:18; 37:7,10; Jer 32:8-12; Mt 21:6,7; Mr 14:16; Joh 2:5-8

Joh 15:14; Ac 26:19

I brought.

3-6

digged. Heb. digged for me.

the rebellious.

1-3; 2:5-8

What.

17:12; 20:49; 24:19

This.

2Ki 9:25; Isa 13:1; 14:28; Mal 1:1

prince.That is, Zedekiah king of Judah.

7:27; 17:13-21; 21:25-27; Jer 21:7; 24:8; 38:18

I am.

remove and go. Heb. by removing go.

Jer 15:2; 52:15,28-30

6; 2Ki 25:4; Jer 39:4; 42:7

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.

17:16,20; 19:8,9; 32:3; Job 19:6; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; Jer 50:24

La 1:13; 3:47; 4:19,20; Ho 7:12; Lu 21:35

and I.

2Ki 25:5-7; Jer 34:3; 39:7; 52:8-11

I will scatter.

5:10-12; 17:21; 2Ki 25:4,5

I will draw.

5:2,12; 14:17,21; Le 26:33; Jer 42:16,22

16,20; 5:13; 6:7,14; 7:4; 11:10; 24:27; 25:11; 26:6; 28:26; 33:33

39:28; Eze 14:18; Ps 9:16

I will.

6:8-10; 14:22,23; Isa 1:9; 6:13; 10:22; 24:13; Jer 4:27; 30:11