ezekiel 15 commentary

b. Or, of God, wherein I saw God, who appeared to the prophet; or else, of God, i.e. tom. ), which according to Edrisi takes its rise from "nearly three hundred springs," near the city Ras-el-'Ain, at the foot of the mountain range of Masius, flows through Upper Mesopotamia in a direction parallel with its two principal streams, and then, turning westward, discharges itself into the Euphrates near Kirkesion. Mesopot. He shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons: A small offering was brought to the priest at the tabernacle. Ezekiel 19. You can check these in your browser security settings. Ezekiel (/ ɪ ˈ z iː k i əl /; Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל ‎ Yĕḥezqēʾl [jəħ.ɛzˈqeːl]; in the Septuagint written in Koinē Greek: Ἰεζεκιήλ Iezekiḗl [i.ɛ.zɛ.kiˈel]) is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.. "and it was in the thirtieth year after Hilkiah the high priest found the book of the law, in the house of the sanctuary, in the court under the porch, in the middle of the night, after the moon was down, in the days of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah;''. 3 Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? i. The best portions of the people seem to have been among the first carried away (Eze 11:16; Jer 24:2-7, 8, 10). ‘If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. thirtieth year—that is, counting from the beginning of the reign of Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar, the era of the Babylonian empire, 625 B.C., which epoch coincides with the eighteenth year of Josiah, that in which the book of the law was found, and the consequent reformation began [Scaliger]; or the thirtieth year of Ezekiel's life. Some try to emphasize the connection between what Ezekiel described and the artistic images of half-beast, half-human monsters of ancient cultures. 748), or Χαβώρας (Ptolem. Nat. Ezekiel 22. These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. Rabbi Hananias is said to have satisfactorily solved the difficulties (Mischna) which were alleged against its canonicity. To suppose, with Hengstenberg, that the reference is to the year of the prophet's own life, is forbidden by the addition "in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month," which points to an era generally recognised. The vision which follows was seen by Ezekiel only, and was probably vouchsafed to him in solitudes” The captives,” or rather, the captivity, as it is in the original, is the same word as is used of Jehoiachin in the next verse, and yet must be somewhat differently understood in the two cases. Some of these were uttered much later than others, but they all began to be given after the fall of Jerusalem. Ecclesiasticus 49:8 refers to it, and Josephus [Antiquities, 10.5.1]. 9. (a) After that the book of the Law as found, which was the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, so that twenty-five years after this book was found, Jeconiah was led away captive with Ezekiel and many of the people, who the first year later saw these visions. They may, according to the Talmudists, have symbolized orders of Angels and not persons; according to others they were figures of the Four Gospels actuated by one spirit spread over the four quarters of the globe, upon which, as on pillars, the Church is borne up, and over whom the Word of God sits enthroned. She shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons: A small offering was brought to the priest at the tabernacle. iii. His prophecies against foreign nations stand between these two great divisions, and were uttered in the interval between the intimation that Nebuchadnezzar was besieging Jerusalem and the arrival of the news that he had taken it (Eze 33:21). The avoidance of intercourse during menstruation was later mentioned in Ezekiel 18:6 as an evidence of a righteous man. It is the habit of many today – even many believers – to consider their sexual life and practices to be their own business, and not God’s business. Of God; excellent and wonderful. It might probably be somewhat like that which appeared to the proto-martyr Stephen, Act 7:56. Visions of God - The exposition of the fundamental principles of the existence and nature of a Supreme God, and of the created angels, was called by the rabbis "the Matter of the Chariot" (compare 1 Chronicles 28:18) in reference to the form of Ezekiel's vision of the Almighty; and the subject was deemed so mysterious as to call for special caution in its study. visions of God—Four expressions are used as to the revelation granted to Ezekiel, the three first having respect to what was presented from without, to assure him of its reality, the fourth to his being internally made fit to receive the revelation; "the heavens were opened" (so Mt 3:16; Ac 7:56; 10:11; Re 19:11); "he saw visions of God"; "the word of Jehovah came verily (as the meaning is rather than 'expressly, English Version, Eze 1:3) unto him" (it was no unreal hallucination); and "the hand of Jehovah was upon him" (Isa 8:11; Da 10:10, 18; Re 1:17; the Lord by His touch strengthening him for his high and arduous ministry, that he might be able to witness and report aright the revelations made to him).The time of Ezekiel's prophecy by the river Chebar, Eze 1:1-3. Thus Ezekiel's sphere of labor was one happier and less impeded by his countrymen than that of Jeremiah at home. In Mark 7:1-9 Jesus criticized the Pharisees for their over-emphasis on ceremonial cleanliness and their lack of regard for internal cleanliness. There the hand of Jehovah came upon Ezekiel. To the modern world this seems normal, but in the ancient world it was common to worship the gods by having sex with temple prostitutes. If she is cleansed: When the abnormal discharge ended, there was an additional seven days of ceremonial impurity. ii. Others, as the Chaldee paraphrast and Jerome, and in modern times also Ideler, are of opinion that the thirtieth year is reckoned from the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah, because in that year the book of the law was discovered, and the regeneration of public worship completed by a solemn celebration of the Passover. v. 18, 3), Arab. As an aspect of the law given to Israel under the Old Covenant, under the New Covenant this is no longer binding on Christians, whatever other reasons there may be for avoiding intercourse during menstruation. b. (2) We come to images to our minds strange and almost grotesque. We also remember that Jesus is the One who makes us clean and fit for fellowship: You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you (John 15:3). His vision of four cherubims, and four wheels, Eze 1:4-25, and of the glory of God above them, Eze 1:26-28. Of what are they symbolic? 10. p. 46. (probably those used in Chaldaea). If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. He prophesied these things in Chaldea, at the same time that Jeremiah prophesied in Judah, and there began in the fifth year of Jehoiachin's captivity. "Gold, sapphire, burnished brass," the "terrible crystal" are familiar images of majestic glory, "thunders, lightnings" and "the rushing storm" of awful power. III. b. They didn’t make Him unclean. This is described in verse first, according to its form or phenomenal nature, and then in verses second and third, according to its intended purpose, and its effect upon the prophet. Also, when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Poetical parallelism is not found except in a few portions, as in the seventh, twenty-first, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth through thirty-first chapters. 10. The fact that even normal and permitted sexual activity made a man ceremonially unclean was not God’s condemnation of sex. God and His word deal with all manner of private and sexual matters, but do so in an appropriate, dignified way. We provide you with a list of stored cookies on your computer in our domain so you can check what we stored. His style is plain and simple. As I was among the captives; Heb. It is repeated more than once in the course of the book (compare Ezekiel 8:2, Ezekiel 8:4; Ezekiel 9:3; 10; Ezekiel 11:22; Ezekiel 40:3). The vision in the opening chapter of Ezekiel is in the most general form - the manifestation of the glory of the living God. Bible Versions ... Ezekiel 15. This presented a powerful and consistent message. And he who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. So by the name of God the Hebrew expresses any excellency, as, cedars of God, man of God. It is as if he were struggling against the impossibility of expressing in words the object of his vision: yet on the summit of the throne is He who can only be described as, in some sort, the form of a man. 1. ch. p. 150, ed. The call of Ezekiel followed the very next year after the communication of Jeremiah's predictions to Babylon (Jer 51:59), and was divinely intended as a sequel to them. l. 5. c. 18. Vid. And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Matthew 3:16; Acts 7:56.). They were eager to return to Jerusalem, but he taught them that they must first return to their God. Some think this is the same river which is called by Ptolemy (a) Chaboras; and is said by him to pass through Mesopotamia: others say it was a river that was drawn off from the river Euphrates, by the order of one Cobaris, or Gobaris, a governor, from whence it had its name; that the river Euphrates might not, by its rapid course, hurt the city of Babylon; and by the Assyrians it was called Armalchar, or Narmalcha (b), the king's river; though it seems to be no other than Euphrates itself; and Kimchi observes, that in some copies of the Targum on this place it is interpreted of the river Euphrates; and he says their Rabbins of blessed memory say, that Chebar is Euphrates; and so Abarbinel; see Psalm 137:1. b. “These laws, in addition to rendering the Israelites as a distinct nation, would undeniably provide a measure of good hygiene as well.” (Rooker). The general principle was that when the unclean comes into contact with the clean, it is the clean that is made unclean. Ezekiel 23. The heaven opens not merely when to our eye a glimpse is disclosed of the heavenly glory of God (Calvin), but also when God manifests His glory in a manner perceptible to human sight. He delights to linger about the temple and to find in its symbolical forms the imagery for conveying his instructions. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. As a priest, when sent into exile, his service was but transferred from the visible temple at Jerusalem to the spiritual temple in Chaldea. Among the captives; in the midst of the captivity, so the Hebrew idiom; perhaps the prophet rather useth the abstract itself than the concrete, to express the grievousness of it: they were captive, nay, captivity rather, under extreme bondage; as darkness for dark. Probably he desired not to give needless offence to the government under which he lived. But. Since the eye of the seer is turned upward, the lines of the vision become less distinct. It flows into the Euphrates near Carchemish or Circesium, two hundred miles north of Babylon. This communication was in the next year, the fifth, and the fourth month of the same king (for Jehoiachin's captivity and Zedekiah's accession coincide in time), followed up by a prophet raised up among the captives themselves, the energetic Ezekiel. (b) Which was a part of Euphrates so called. And whoever touches anything that she sat on shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Test. Author, ethicist, cook, medic, policymaker: he makes other over-achievers look lazy and inadequate. The man made unclean could spread his uncleanness through contact (every bed on which he lies shall be unclean). - If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. This does not mean that God regards sex itself as inherently sinful or impure; but it does mean that the sexual ethic of “if it feels good, do it” is an ungodly and destructive approach. ii. The phenomenon consisted in this, that the heavens were opened, and Ezekiel saw visions of God. 1. l. 1. c. 19. The command forced the obedient Israeli man or woman to say “no” to their sexual desires in certain situations. The first level was the uncleanness of the man afflicted with the abnormal genital discharge (15:1-3). Regarding ויהי at the beginning of a book, as e.g., in Jonah 1:1, cf. Ezekiel 16. The vicinity of the river Chebar, which flows into the Euphrates near Circeslum, was the first scene of his prophecies (Eze 1:1). Hist. the note on Joshua 1:1. (8) In the twelfth year of the captivity, when the fugitives from Jerusalem (Eze 33:21) had appeared in Chaldea, he foretells better times and the re-establishment of Israel and the triumph of God's kingdom on earth over its enemies, Seir, the heathen, and Gog (Eze 33:1-39:29). On the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD, to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and give them to the priest. And this shall be his uncleanness: In contrast to the previous chapters regarding the broad definition of leprosy, there is no mention made of priestly inspection or monitoring. Ezekiel chapter 3 KJV (King James Version) 1 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.. 2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. The earlier portion, the first through the thirty-second chapters, which mainly treats of sin and judgment, is a key to interpret the latter portion, which is more hopeful and joyous, but remote in date. The river כּבר, to be distinguished from חבור, the river of Gosan, which flows into the Tigris, see on 2 Kings 17:6, is the Mesopotamian Chabioras, ̓Αβορρας (Strabo, xvi. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. (s) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 26. Everything that she lies on during her impurity shall be unclean; also everything that she sits on shall be unclean. Activate the gods into fertilizing the soil with rain. ” ( Rooker ) Arabic and Syriac versions read ``. From these events fact that even normal and permitted sexual activity in the several classes—priests,,. Worship of God. groundwork in the several classes—priests, prophets, and everything on there. Genital discharge ( verses 13-15 ) the offering regarding an abnormal genital discharge ( verses ). Browser security settings eager to return to their God. a unity and an orderly progressive character are imparted the... Occur among those directed against the enemies of the glory of God, man of God into the fire from! 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