In this chapter, the description of Tyre’s wealth and splendor – as well as the portrayal of the sorrow and consternation among the nations...
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 26: Against Tyre, Part 1
The prophet’s communication in respect to Tyre is marked, at the commencement, by his prefixing the date when he received this word of judgment...
Ezekiel 25: Against Four Heathen Nations
Here, for the present, Ezekiel ceases from his labors that were particularly for the good of his own people. He has disclosed the people’s...
Ezekiel 24: A Sad Day for Ezekiel
The messages contained in this chapter formed the melancholy close of Ezekiel’s communications to his countrymen, before Jerusalem was...
Ezekiel 23: Aholah and Aholibah
This chapter is a history of the apostasies of God’s people from Him, narrated under the similitude of the sin of adultery. Here the two...
Ezekiel 22: No One to Stand in the Gap!
This chapter stands closely related to the previous one, and it may fitly be regarded as a supplement to it; for the former presented a...
Ezekiel 21: The Sword of the Lord’s Judgment
“And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem…” Darkness and ambiguity hung over the vision at the...
Ezekiel 20: Another Message to the Elders
A new series of prophecies begins here in this chapter, and stretches to the close of the twenty-fourth chapter. The entire series is of a...
Ezekiel 19: A Lioness and Her Cubs
The expostulation contained in the last chapter was held with the covenant-people as a whole, and its final aim was to put them on the only way...
Ezekiel 18: Punished for Other People’s Sins?
The prophet now passes to an expostulation with the Lord’s people on account of their sin, and he earnestly pleads with them to follow the ways...
Ezekiel 17: Two Eagles and a Vine
In the last chapter, the Lord was reckoning with the people of Judah, and bringing ruin upon them because of their treachery in breaking the...
Ezekiel 16: Unfaithfulness Repaid to Divine Mercy
Having used the parable of the vine in the last chapter as an introduction, the prophet now proceeds to make an application of its principles...
Ezekiel 15: The Dead and Withered Vine
This chapter and the next are so closely related that the first of them may very well be regarded as a kind of introduction to the other. The...
Ezekiel 14: God’s Message to Hypocrites
Hearing the Word and praying are two great ordinances of God, in which we are to give honor to Him; and therein, we may hope to find favor and...
Ezekiel 13: Against False Prophets and Prophetesses
A very close connection exists between the subject of this chapter and the one immediately preceding it. The last chapter denounced the false...
Ezekiel 12: The Nearness of the Coming Calamities
Although the majestic vision of God’s glory had gone up from the prophet, yet His Word came to him still; and through him, this Word was sent...
Ezekiel 11: The Death of Pelatiah
Another scene of destruction was yet to be displayed before the eye of the prophet, before words of mercy and consolation were uttered in his...
Ezekiel 10: Coals of Fire
As soon as Ezekiel’s attention was withdrawn from what had been completely absorbing it in the last two chapters, he was favored with another...
Ezekiel 9: A Mark of Preservation
The vision that was depicted in chapter 8 was intended to reveal the various workings of that apostate and rebellious spirit which had infected...
Ezekiel 8: Great Abominations in Jerusalem!
About 14 months after Ezekiel’s vision of the glory of the Lord, he was sitting in his own house; and the elders of Judah who sojourned with...