Eze 24:21 | JFB | STEP | 21. excellency of your strength —(compare ). The object of your pride and confidence ( ). desire of . . . eyes — ( ). The antitype to Ezekiel's wife ( ). pitieth —loveth, as pity is akin to love: "yearned over." Profane —an appropriate word. They had profaned the temple with idolatry; God, in just retribution, will profane it with the Chaldean sword, that is, lay it in the dust, as Ezekiel's wife. sons . . . daughters . . . left —the children left behind in Judea, when the parents were carried away.

Ezekiel 24:21

21. excellency of your strength—(compare Am 6:8). The object of your pride and confidence (Jer 7:4, 10, 14).

desire of . . . eyes— (Ps 27:4). The antitype to Ezekiel's wife (Eze 24:16).

pitieth—loveth, as pity is akin to love: "yearned over."

Profane—an appropriate word. They had profaned the temple with idolatry; God, in just retribution, will profane it with the Chaldean sword, that is, lay it in the dust, as Ezekiel's wife.

sons . . . daughters . . . left—the children left behind in Judea, when the parents were carried away.