Ezekiel 27

Ezekiel 27:2

Three - It is probable there were more keepers of the door, but the captain of the guard took only three of the chief.

Ezekiel 27:8

All the persons were four thousand and six hundred - How amazingly were the Jews diminished, that this handful was all who were carried captive!

Ezekiel 27:12

All the days of his life - Here ends the history of the kingdom of Judah. I shall only observe the severe judgment of God upon this people, whose kingdom was made up of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and half the tribe of Manasseh. In the numbering of the persons belonging to these two tribes, Numbers 1:27,35,37, (counting half of the number of the tribe of Manasseh) we find one hundred twenty - six thousand one hundred: Numbers 26:22,34,41, we find of them one hundred forty - eight thousand four hundred and fifty. Here, ver.52:30, we find no more of them carried into captivity, than four thousand and six hundred. From whence we may judge what a multitude of them were slain by the sword, by the famine, and pestilence! It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, to mock his messengers, despise his words, and misuse his prophets, ’till there be no remedy, 2 Chronicles 36:16.

Ezekiel 27:14

Weary - With that weight of judgment which shall be upon them. The words - The prophetical words of Jeremiah; for the matter of the next chapter is historical, and the book of Lamentations is not prophetical.

Ezekiel 27:15

A widow - She that had a king, or rather a God, that was an husband to her, now was forsaken of God, and her king taken from her.

Ezekiel 27:17

Because - Because of the servitude and oppression exercised among them: oppression by their rulers, and servitude more generally; keeping their servants beyond the year of jubilee, when they ought to be set at liberty. The straits - Those that pursued them overtook them in places where they could not escape.

Ezekiel 27:18

She - Persons of all ages and ranks are in bitterness.

Ezekiel 27:24

Pleasant things - Has laid violent hands on them. The things of the sanctuary were always pleasant things to those that feared God.

Ezekiel 27:25

Bread - Even in a land that ordinarily flowed with milk and honey, they were at a loss for bread to eat. Given - And gave any thing for something to satisfy their hunger. Vile - Miserable or contemptible.

Ezekiel 27:26

Is it nothing - The prophet speaks in the name of the Jewish church.

Ezekiel 27:27

Fire - A judgment as consuming, and afflictive as fire.

Ezekiel 27:28

Is bound - Put upon my neck on account of my transgressions. Wreathed - My punishments are twisted as cords; I have a complication of judgments upon me, sword, famine, pestilence, captivity.

Ezekiel 27:29

An assembly - God had called an assembly of Chaldeans against the city, to crush the inhabitants of it. Trodden - God had trodden upon the Jews as men use to stamp grapes in a wine - press.

Ezekiel 27:30

The comforter - God.

Ezekiel 27:31

Jerusalem - Is become loathsome and filthy.

Ezekiel 27:33

Deceived - They did not answer my expectation.

Ezekiel 27:34

Death - By famine and pestilence.

Ezekiel 27:35

They - The neighbouring nations. Like me - But thou hast foretold their destruction also, and hast by me proclaimed it: and thou shalt in that day bring them into as sad a condition as I am in now.