ezekiel 15 commentary

Do they make pegs from it to hang things on? Rabbi Hananias is said to have satisfactorily solved the difficulties (Mischna) which were alleged against its canonicity. iii. 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. Ezekiel 1:3. Or, of God, wherein I saw God, who appeared to the prophet; or else, of God, i.e. tom. “These laws, in addition to rendering the Israelites as a distinct nation, would undeniably provide a measure of good hygiene as well.” (Rooker). They didn’t make Him unclean. B. And if any man lies with her at all, so that her impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean. a. According to the book itself, it records six visions of the prophet Ezekiel, exiled in Babylon, during the 22 years from 593 to 571 BC, although it is the product of a long and complex history and does not necessarily preserve the … But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (9) Take thou also unto thee wheat.-- 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. They were eager to return to Jerusalem, but he taught them that they must first return to their God. He who sits on anything on which he who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. ), but Divine visions, visions sent from God, as in Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 40:2. ‘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. iv. Tel-Abib there (now Thallaba) was his place of residence (Eze 3:15), whither the elders used to come to inquire as to God's messages through him. There are very few policy experts - in health care or any other field - with Zeke's smarts, political antenna and persuasive powers. iv. The effect of the one and the other would be chiefly performed under Christ, of whom in this book are many notable promises, and in whom the glory of the new temple would perfectly be restored. You can also change some of your preferences. b. Visions; in the plural, either because they were many distinct visions, or because it was made of many distinct parts, each part might seem to be one vision. Probably he desired not to give needless offence to the government under which he lived. The oneness of tone throughout and the repetition of favorite expressions exclude the suspicion that separate portions are not genuine. This was beheld by Ezekiel in the thirtieth year, which, according to verse second, was in the fifth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin. (b) Which was a part of Euphrates so called. The forms are typical, "the lion" and "the ox" of the beasts of the field (wild and tame), "the eagle" of the birds of the air, while "man" is the rational being supreme upon the earth. In his images he is magnificent, though austere and somewhat harsh. It was a powerful way to prevent an aspect of sexual and spiritual corruption common in the ancient world: ritual prostitution, often practiced at a sacred place. Click to enable/disable Google reCaptcha. in Ezek. In the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign (Jer 51:59), Jeremiah sent by Seraiah a message to the captives (Jer 29:1-32) to submit themselves to God and lay aside their flattering hopes of a speedy restoration. 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. ii. "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;''. ... involved in Exodus 20:5 and Jeremiah 15:4, are justified. This presented a powerful and consistent message. The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water. The event alone can clear it up. Therefore, it could be transmitted to a bed, to a place on which he sits, and by direct touch (he who touches). or, according to Jerom (t), from the time of the prophet's birth, who was now thirty years of age, and was just entered into his priestly office; or rather it was the thirtieth year of Nabopolassar, or the father of Nebuchadnezzar: this was the twelfth year of the captivity, reckoning from the third of Jehoiakim, which was the first captivity, and from whence the seventy years are to be reckoned, and also the twelfth of Nebuchadnezzar's reign; and if two years are taken, as Vitringa (u) observes, from the twenty one years, which are given to Nabopolassar in Ptolemy's canon, in which Nebuchadnezzar his son reigned with him, there will be found thirty years from the beginning of Nabopolassar's reign to the fifth of Jeconiah's captivity, when Ezekiel began his prophecy, and which, as Bishop Usher (w), Mr. Bedford (x), Mr. Whiston (y), and the authors of the Universal History (z), place in the year 593, before the birth of Christ: in the fourth month; the month Tammuz, as the Targum expresses it; which answers to part of June, and part of July: in the fifth day of the month; which some take to be on a sabbath day; because, seven days after, the word of the Lord came to him again Ezekiel 3:16; just as John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, Revelation 1:10; between one of whose visions and this there is a very great likeness, as will be seen hereafter: as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar; which is another agreement in circumstance between Ezekiel and John, when they had their visions: John was an exile in Patrons, and Ezekiel among the captives by the river Chebar in Chaldea. When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean, Every bed is unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, If he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, Whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, He shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, They shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening, every bed on which he lies shall be unclean, If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, She shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, When they defile My tabernacle that is among them, © Copyright - Enduring Word       |      . 1. 2 Kings 3:15), or undertaking, heavenly things; and so throughout Ezekiel, cf. These laws were meant to have both hygienic reasons and spiritual applications; they were never intended as the way to be right with God. On the other hand, Ezekiel was distinctively a prophet, and one who had to do with the inward concerns of the divine kingdom. This is the common method. (a) Geograph. Since the eye of the seer is turned upward, the lines of the vision become less distinct. There is no specific washing commanded at the end of the seven days, but it was either implied or considered unnecessary. i. If a woman has a discharge: In the case of a bloody discharge from a woman (her normal menstruation), her ceremonial impurity could be spread through direct contact or through an object that she lay or sat upon. When he who has a discharge is cleansed: When the abnormal genital discharge ended, the man could be made ceremonially clean. That Yahweh, the eternal God, is spoken of, we cannot doubt; and such passages as Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3; John 1:14; John 12:41, justify us in maintaining that the revelation of the divine glory here made to Ezekiel has its consummation or fulfillment in the person of Christ, the only-begotten of God (compare Revelation 1:17-18). 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. Read Ezekiel commentary using Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete). Further, these four represent the constitutive parts of man's nature: "the ox" (the animal of sacrifice), his faculty of suffering; "the lion" (the king of beasts), his faculty of ruling; "the eagle" (of keen eye and soaring wing), his faculty of imagination; "the man," his spiritual faculty, which actuates all the rest. 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. Nothing is outside His jurisdiction. They shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening: In the case of an emission of semen, both the man and his wife needed to ceremonially cleanse themselves and respect a brief time of ceremonial impurity. The prophet by it, as it were, continues the history of the preceding times. Thus Ezekiel's sphere of labor was one happier and less impeded by his countrymen than that of Jeremiah at home. (Gen 15:9-11) Abram prepares to make a covenant with God. So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." He delights to linger about the temple and to find in its symbolical forms the imagery for conveying his instructions. In the year 625 b.c., Nabopolassar became king of Babylon, and therefore many of the older expositors have supposed that Ezekiel means the thirtieth year of the era of Nabopolassar. i. The particularity of details as to the temple and its offerings rather discountenances the view of this vision being only symbolical, and not at all literal. The real identity of these two dates is placed beyond doubt by the mention of the same day of the month, "on the fifth day of the month" (Ezekiel 1:2 compared with Ezekiel 1:1). Here it is the manifestation of Jehovah's glory described in the following verses. b. c. It is his uncleanness: The status of “unclean” did not completely take the unclean one out of the community. Ecclesiasticus 49:8 refers to it, and Josephus [Antiquities, 10.5.1]. The best portions of the people seem to have been among the first carried away (Eze 11:16; Jer 24:2-7, 8, 10). The avoidance of intercourse during menstruation was later mentioned in Ezekiel 18:6 as an evidence of a righteous man. If anything is on her bed or on anything on which she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening. 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. Normal discharges of semen and menstruation made one ceremonially unclean, not because there was anything inherently wrong with them, but because the two are connected with symbols of life and redemption, blood and semen. Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. The effect of his labors is to be seen in the improved character of the people towards the close of the captivity, and their general cessation from idolatry and a return to the law. The ungodly were willing to do anything to remain in their native land; whereas the godly believed the prophets and obeyed the first summons to surrender, as the only path of safety. Whatever she sits on shall be unclean: The woman’s ceremonial uncleanness could be spread to any object upon which she lay or sat. Ezekiel 21. 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. 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. We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. (probably those used in Chaldaea). In Acts 15, the early Christian community properly discerned the work and will of God in the New Covenant: that under the New Covenant, the believer was not bound to these laws of ritual purity. 15 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, how is the wood of a vine different from that of a branch from any of the trees in the forest? (c) That is, notable and excellent visions, so that it might be known, it was no natural dream but came from God. - If a vine be fruitful, it is valuable. (4) Exposure of the particular sins prevalent in the several classes—priests, prophets, and princes (Eze 12:1-19:14). This was done by the individual, supported by the expectation of the culture. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. (2) We come to images to our minds strange and almost grotesque. the note on Joshua 1:1. 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. The general principle was that when the unclean comes into contact with the clean, it is the clean that is made unclean. Toggle navigation. Each of these visions has some of the outward signs or symbols here recorded. b. The man made unclean could spread his uncleanness through contact (every bed on which he lies shall be unclean). Tradition represents Sarera as the land of his nativity. The vicinity of the river Chebar, which flows into the Euphrates near Circeslum, was the first scene of his prophecies (Eze 1:1). Chebar; a branch of Euphrates, or that part which Chobar advised should be made to divert the violence of Euphrates, lest it damnify the city Babylon. The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh and one of the major prophetic books in the Old Testament, following Isaiah and Jeremiah. (r) Apud R. D. Kimchi in loc. Lest the godly despair in these great troubles, he assures them that God will deliver his church at his appointed time and also destroy their enemies, who either afflicted them, or rejoiced in their miseries. 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