UHezekile 14:1

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

1 Kwafika kum amadoda akumadoda amakhulu akwaSirayeli, ahlala phantsi phambi kwam.

Bible Verse Review
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certain: Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 20:1, 2 Kings 6:32, Acts 4:5, Acts 4:8

and sat: Ezekiel 33:31, Isaiah 29:13, Luke 10:39, Acts 22:3

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 34:21 - inquire Isaiah 21:12 - if Ezekiel 7:26 - then Ezekiel 8:12 - ancients

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then came certain, of the elders of Israel unto me,.... The Syriac version adds, "to consult the Lord"; by the prophet. These, according to Kimchi, were the elders of the captivity, the heads of the captives that were now in Babylon with Ezekiel: but there are others that think they were some that came from Jerusalem to Babylon on some business or another; and having heard much of the prophet, came to visit him, and to hear his prophecies, and inquire of the Lord by him:

and sat before me; silent and pensive, as persons in anxiety and distress; or as hearers of him, for sitting is a hearing gesture; they sat and heard with great attention, gravity, and seriousness, with seeming affection and reverence; and all this was not in a visionary way, but was a real fact; see Ezekiel 33:31.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Elders of Israel - Some of the fellow-exiles of Ezekiel, among whom he ministered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIV

Here God threatens those hypocrites who pretended to worship

him, while they loved and practised idolatry, 1-11.

He declares his irreversible purpose of punishing so guilty a

nation, in behalf of which no intercession of the people of God

shall be of any avail. The gross idolaters of Jerusalem and

Judah shall be visited with God's four sore judgments, famine,

12-14;

wild beasts, 15, 16;

the sword, 17, 18;

and pestilence, 19-21.

A remnant shall be delivered from the wrath coming upon the

whole land, 22, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIV

Verse Ezekiel 14:1. Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me — These probably came to tempt him, or get him to say something that would embroil him with the government. They were bad men, as we shall see in the third verse.