geneva - Ezekiel:6-10

geneva@Ezekiel:6:1 @ Againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:6:2 @ Sonne of man, Set thy face towardes the mountaines of Israel, and prophecie against them,

geneva@Ezekiel:6:3 @ And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the (note:)He speaks of all the places where the Israelites accustomed to commit their idolaters, threatening them with destruction.(:note) mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, [even] I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:4 @ And your altars shall be desolate, and your (note:)Read (2Ki_23:14).(:note) images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain [men] before your idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:5 @ And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their (note:)In contempt of their power and force, which will neither be able to deliver you or themselves.(:note) idols; and I will scatter your bones about your altars.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:6 @ In all your dwelling places the cities shalbe desolate, and the hie places shalbe laide waste, so that your altars shalbe made waste and desolate, and your idoles shalbe broken, and cease, & your images of the sunne shalbe cut in pieces, & your workes shalbe abolished.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:7 @ And the slaine shall fall in the middes of you, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:8 @ Yet will I leave a remnant, (note:)He shows that in all dangers God will preserve a few, which will be as the seed of his Church and call on his Name.(:note) that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:9 @ And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations to which they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their adulterous heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the harlot with their idols: and they (note:)They will be ashamed to see that their hope in idols was in vain, and so will repent.(:note) shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:10 @ And they shall knowe that I am the Lord, and that I haue not saide in vaine, that I woulde doe this euill vnto them.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:11 @ Thus saith the Lord GOD; (note:)By these signs he would that the prophet would signify the great destruction to come.(:note) Smite with thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:12 @ He that is farre off, shal dye of the pestilence, and he that is neere, shal fall by the sword, and hee that remaineth and is besieged, shal dye by the famine: thus will I accomplish my wrath vpon them.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:13 @ Then shall (note:)That is, all nations when you will see my judgments.(:note) ye know that I [am] the LORD, when their slain [men] shall be among their idols all around their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they offered sweet savour to all their idols.

geneva@Ezekiel:6:14 @ So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, even, more desolate (note:)Which was in Syria and bordered on Israel, or from the wilderness which was south, to Diblath which was north: meaning the while country.(:note) than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:1 @ Moreouer the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

geneva@Ezekiel:7:2 @ Also thou sonne of man, thus saith the Lord God, An ende is come vnto the lande of Israel: the ende is come vpon the foure corners of the lande.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:3 @ Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all (note:)I will punish you as you have deserved for your idolatry.(:note) thy abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:4 @ Neither shall mine eye spare thee, neither will I haue pitie: but I will laye thy waies vpon thee: and thine abomination shall bee in the middes of thee, and yee shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:5 @ Thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, one euil, euen one euill is come.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:6 @ An end is come, the end is come: it (note:)He shows that the judgments of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, who notwithstanding he delays till there is no more hope of repentance.(:note) watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:7 @ The (note:)The beginning of his punishments is already come.(:note) morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble [is] near, and not the joyful Which was a voice of joy and mirth. shouting upon the mountains.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:8 @ Now I will shortly powre out my wrath vpon thee, and fulfil mine anger vpon thee: I will iudge thee according to thy wayes, and will lay vpon thee all thine abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:9 @ Neither shall mine eie spare thee, neither will I haue pitie, but I will laye vpon thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations shalbe in the middes of thee, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde that smiteth.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:10 @ Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the (note:)The scourge is ready.(:note) rod hath blossomed, That is, the proud tyrant Nebuchadnezzar has gathered his force and is ready. pride hath budded.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:11 @

geneva@Ezekiel:7:12 @ The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer (note:)For the present profit.(:note) rejoice, nor the seller For he will lose nothing. mourn: for wrath [is] upon all its multitude.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:13 @ For the seller shall not (note:)In the year of the Jubile, meaning that none would enjoy the privilege of the law, (Lev_25:13) for they would all be carried away captives.(:note) return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the This vision signified that all would be carried away, and none would return for the Jubile. vision [is] concerning its whole multitude, [which] shall not return; No man for all this endeavours himself or takes heart to repent for his evil life. Some read, for none will be strengthened in his iniquity of his life: meaning that they would gain nothing by flattering themselves in evil. neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:14 @

geneva@Ezekiel:7:15 @ The sword is without, and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field, shall dye with the sword, and he that is in the citie, famine and pestilence shall deuoure him.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:16 @ But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:17 @ All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:18 @ They shall also girde them selues with sackecloth, and feare shall couer them, and shame shalbe vpon all faces, & baldnes vpon their heads.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:19 @ They shall cast their siluer in the streetes, and their golde shalbe cast farre off: their siluer and their gold can not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfie their soules, neither fill their bowels: for this ruine is for their iniquitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:20 @ As for the beauty of his (note:)Meaning, the sanctuary.(:note) ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:21 @ And I will give it into the hands of the (note:)That is, of the Babylonians.(:note) strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:22 @ My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my (note:)Which signifies the most holy place, into which none might enter but the high priest.(:note) secret [place]: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:23 @ Make a (note:)Signifying that they would be bound and led away captives.(:note) chain: for the land is full of That is, of sins that deserve death. bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:24 @ Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their (note:)Which was the temple that was divided into three parts.(:note) holy places shall be defiled.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:25 @ When destruction commeth, they shall seeke peace, and shall not haue it.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:26 @ Calamitie shall come vpon calamitie, and rumour shall bee vpon rumour: then shall they seeke a vision of the Prophet: but the Lawe shal perish from the Priest, and counsel from the Ancient.

geneva@Ezekiel:7:27 @ The King shall mourne, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the handes of the people in the land shall be troubled: I wil doe vnto them according to their waies, and according to their iudgements will I iudge them, and they shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:1 @ And it came to pass in the (note:)Of the captivity of Jeconiah.(:note) sixth year, in the Which contained part of August and part of September. sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:2 @ Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of (note:)As in (Eze_1:27).(:note) fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:3 @ And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the (note:)Meaning that he was thus carried in spirit, and not in body.(:note) visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner Which was the porch or the court where the people assembled. gate that looketh toward the north; where [was] the seat of the image of So called, because it provoked God's indignation, which was the idol of Baal. jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:4 @ And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw (note:)Read (Eze_3:22).(:note) in the plain.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:5 @ Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up thy eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the (note:)That is, in the court where the people had made an altar to Baal.(:note) altar this image of jealousy in the entrance.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:6 @ He said furthermore to me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should withdraw from (note:)For God will not be where the idols are.(:note) my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:7 @ And he caused me to enter at the gate of the court: and when I looked, beholde, an hole was in the wall.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:8 @ Then said he vnto me, Sonne of man, digge nowe in the wall; when I had digged in the wall, beholde, there was a doore.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:9 @ And he said vnto mee, Go in, and beholde the wicked abominations that they doe here.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:10 @ So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping animals, and (note:)Which were forbidden in the law, (Lev_11:4).(:note) abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around upon the wall.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:11 @ And there stood before them seventy (note:)Thus they who would have kept all the rest in the fear and true service of God were the ringleaders of all abomination, and by their example pulled others from God.(:note) men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and It was in such abundance. a thick cloud of incense went up.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:12 @ Then said he to me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel (note:)For besides their common idolatry they had particular service, which they had in secret chambers.(:note) do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:13 @ Againe he saide also vnto me, Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they doe.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:14 @ Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which [was] toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for (note:)The Jews write, that this was a prophet of the idols, who after his death was once a year mourned for in the night.(:note) Tammuz.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:15 @ Then saide hee vnto me, Hast thou seene this, O sonne of man? Turne thee againe, and thou shalt see greater abominations then these.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:16 @ And he caused me to enter into the inner court of the Lordes house, and beholde, at the doore of the Temple of the Lord, betweene the porche and the altar were about fiue and twentie men with their backs toward the Temple of the Lord, and their faces towarde the East, and they worshipped the sunne, towarde the East.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:17 @ Then he said to me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the (note:)Declaring that the censings and service of the idolaters are but infections and villany before God.(:note) branch to their nose.

geneva@Ezekiel:8:18 @ Therefore will I also execute my wrath: mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, and though they crie in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet will I not heare them.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:1 @ He cried also in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over (note:)The time to take vengeance.(:note) the city to draw near, even every man [with] his destroying weapon in his hand.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:2 @ And, behold, six (note:)Which were angels in the appearance of men.(:note) men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the Signifying that the Babylonians would come from the north to destroy the city and the temple. north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them [was] clothed with linen, with a writer's To mark them that would be saved. inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:3 @ And the glory of the God of Israel had (note:)Which declared that he was not bound to it, neither would remain any longer than there was hope that they would return from their wickedness and worship him correctly.(:note) gone up from the cherub, on which he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, who [had] the writer's inkhorn by his side;

geneva@Ezekiel:9:4 @ And the LORD said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that (note:)He shows what is the manner of God's children, whom he marks for salvation: that is, to mourn and cry out against the wickedness which they see committed against God's glory.(:note) sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst of it.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:5 @ And to the other he said, that I might heare, Goe ye after him through the citie, and smite: let your eye spare none, neither haue pitie.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:6 @ Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the (note:)Thus in all his plagues the Lord preserves his small number, which he marks as in (Exo_12:12; Rev_7:3) but the chief mark is the spirit of adoption, with which the heart is sealed up to life everlasting.(:note) mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the Which was the chief opportunity for all these evils, as in (Eze_8:11). elders who [were] before the house.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:7 @ And he sayde vnto them, Defile the house, and fill the courtes with the slaine, then goe foorth: and they went out, and slewe them in the citie.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:8 @ And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, (note:)This declares that the servants of God have a compassion when they see his judgments executed.(:note) Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy the whole remnant of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

geneva@Ezekiel:9:9 @ Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of (note:)That is, with all kinds of wickedness. {{See Isa_1:15}}(:note) blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:10 @ As touching me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, but will recompence their wayes vpon their heades.

geneva@Ezekiel:9:11 @ And beholde, the man clothed with linen which had the ynkhorne by his side, made report, and saide, Lorde, I haue done as thou hast commanded me.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:1 @ Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the (note:)Which in (Eze_1:5) he called the four beasts.(:note) cherubim there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:2 @ And he spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, [even] under the cherub, and fill thy hand with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter [them] over (note:)This signified that the city would be burnt.(:note) the city. And he entered in my sight.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:3 @ Now the Cherubims stood vpon the right side of the house, when the man went in, and the cloude filled the inner court.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:4 @ Then the glory of the LORD (note:)Meaning that the glory of God would depart from the temple.(:note) went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD'S glory.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:5 @ And the (note:)Read (Eze_1:24).(:note) sound of the cherubim's wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:6 @ And when he had commaunded the man clothed with linnen, saying, Take fire from betweene the wheeles, & from betweene ye Cherubims, then he went in and stood beside ye wheele.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:7 @ And one Cherub stretched forth his hand from betweene the Cherubims vnto the fire, that was betweene the Cherubims, and tooke thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linnen: who tooke it and went out.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:8 @ And there appeared in the Cherubims, the likenesse of a mans hande vnder their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:9 @ And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a (note:)Read (Eze_1:16).(:note) beryl stone.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:10 @ And their appearance (for they were all foure of one facion) was as if one wheele had bene in another wheele.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:11 @ When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they (note:)Until they had executed God's judgments.(:note) turned not as they went.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:12 @ And their whole bodie, and their rings, and their hands, and their wings, & the wheeles were full of eyes round about, euen in the same foure wheeles.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:13 @ And the Cherub cryed to these wheeles in mine hearing, saying, O wheele.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:14 @ And euery beast had foure faces: the first face was the face of a Cherub, & the second face was the face of a man, and the thirde the face of a lyon, and the fourth the face of an Egle.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:15 @ And the Cherubims were lifted vp: this is the beast that I sawe at the riuer Chebar.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:16 @ And when ye Cherubims went, the wheeles went by them: and when the Cherubims lift vp their wings to mount vp from the earth, the same wheeles also turned not from beside them.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:17 @ When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also]: for the (note:)There was one consent between the cherubims and the wheels.(:note) spirit of the living being [was] in them.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:18 @

geneva@Ezekiel:10:19 @ And the Cherubims lift vp their wings, and mounted vp from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheeles also were besides them: and euery one stoode at the entrie of the gate of the Lordes House at the East side, and the glorie of the God of Israel was vpo them on hie.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:20 @ This [is] the (note:)That is, the whole body of the four beasts or cherubims.(:note) living being that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubim.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:21 @ Euery one had foure faces, and euery one foure wings, and the likenesse of mans hands was vnder their wings.

geneva@Ezekiel:10:22 @ And the likenes of their faces was the selfe same faces, which I sawe by the riuer Chebar, and the appearance of the Cherubims was ye selfe same, and they went euery one straight forwarde.

geneva@Ezekiel:11:1 @ Moreouer, the Spirite lift me vp, and brought me vnto the East gate of the Lordes house, which lyeth Eastwarde, and beholde, at the entrie of the gate were fiue and twentie men: among whome I sawe Iaazaniah the sonne of Azur, and Pelatiah the sonne of Benaiah, the princes of the people.