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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 11:15 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Eze 11:15 |
Strong Concordance |
Son [01121] of man [0120], thy brethren [0251], even thy brethren [0251], the men [0582] of thy kindred [01353], and all the house [01004] of Israel [03478] wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants [03427] of Jerusalem [03389] have said [0559], Get you far [07368] from the LORD [03068]: unto us is this land [0776] given [05414] in possession [04181]. |
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King James |
Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
thy brethren . . . brethren--The repetition implies, "Thy real brethren" are no longer the priests at Jerusalem with whom thou art connected by the natural ties of blood and common temple service, but thy fellow exiles on the Chebar, and the house of Israel whosoever of them belong to the remnant to be spared.
men of thy kindred--literally, "of thy redemption," that is, the nearest relatives, whose duty it was to do the part of Goel, or vindicator and redeemer of a forfeited inheritance (Lev 25:25). Ezekiel, seeing the priesthood doomed to destruction, as a priest, felt anxious to vindicate their cause, as if they were his nearest kinsmen and he their Goel. But he is told to look for his true kinsmen in those, his fellow exiles, whom his natural kinsmen at Jerusalem despised, and he is to be their vindicator. Spiritual ties, as in the case of Levi (Deu 33:9), the type of Messiah (Mat 12:47-50) are to supersede natural ones where the two clash. The hope of better days was to rise from the despised exiles. The gospel principle is shadowed forth here, that the despised of men are often the chosen of God and the highly esteemed among men are often an abomination before Him (Luk 16:15; Co1 1:26-28). "No door of hope but in the valley of Achor" ("trouble," Hos 2:15), [FAIRBAIRN].
Get you far . . . unto us is this land--the contemptuous words of those left still in the city at the carrying away of Jeconiah to the exiles, "However far ye be outcasts from the Lord and His temple, we are secure in our possession of the land." |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Thy kindred - The original word is derived from a root, suggesting the ideas of "redeeming" and "avenging" as connected with the bond of "kindred." The word, therefore, conveys here a special reproach to the proud Jews, who have been so ready to cast off the claims of blood-relationship, and at the same time a hope of restoration to those who have been rudely thrown aside. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Thy brethren - Thy nearest kindred, which it seems were left in Jerusalem. Their degeneracy is more noted in the repetition of the word brethren. Gone far - Ye are gone far from the Lord; as much as the Heathens accused the Christians of atheism. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Get you far from the Lord - These are the words of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against those of Israel who had been carried away to Babylon with Jeconiah. Go ye far from the Lord: but as for us, the land of Israel is given to us for a possession, we shall never be removed from it, and they shall never return to it. |
15 And I will give [05414] her her vineyards [03754] from thence, and the valley [06010] of Achor [05911] for a door [06607] of hope [08615]: and she shall sing [06030] there, as in the days [03117] of her youth [05271], and as in the day [03117] when she came up [05927] out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
26 For [1063] ye see [991] your [5216] calling [2821], brethren [80], how that [3754] not [3756] many [4183] wise men [4680] after [2596] the flesh [4561], not [3756] many [4183] mighty [1415], not [3756] many [4183] noble [2104], are called:
27 But [235] God [2316] hath chosen [1586] the foolish things [3474] of the world [2889] to [2443] confound [2617] the wise [4680]; and [2532] God [2316] hath chosen [1586] the weak things [772] of the world [2889] to [2443] confound [2617] the things which are mighty [2478];
28 And [2532] base things [36] of the world [2889], and [2532] things which are despised [1848], hath [1586] God [2316] chosen [1586], yea, and [2532] things which [3588] are [5607] not [3361], to [2443] bring to nought [2673] things that are [5607]:
15 And [2532] he said [2036] unto them [846], Ye [5210] are [2075] they which justify [1344] yourselves [1438] before [1799] men [444]; but [1161] God [2316] knoweth [1097] your [5216] hearts [2588]: for [3754] that which is highly esteemed [5308] among [1722] men [444] is [2076] abomination [946] in the sight [1799] of God [2316].
47 Then [1161] one [5100] said [2036] unto him [846], Behold [2400], thy [4675] mother [3384] and [2532] thy [4675] brethren [80] stand [2476] without [1854], desiring [2212] to speak [2980] with thee [4671].
48 But [1161] he answered [611] and said [2036] unto him that told [2036] him [846], Who [5101] is [2076] my [3450] mother [3384]? and [2532] who [5101] are [1526] my [3450] brethren [80]?
49 And [2532] he stretched forth [1614] his [846] hand [5495] toward [1909] his [846] disciples [3101], and said [2036], Behold [2400] my [3450] mother [3384] and [2532] my [3450] brethren [80]!
50 For [1063] whosoever [3748] [302] shall do [4160] the will [2307] of my [3450] Father [3962] which [3588] is in [1722] heaven [3772], the same [846] is [2076] my [3450] brother [80], and [2532] sister [79], and [2532] mother [3384].
9 Who said [0559] unto his father [01] and to his mother [0517], I have not seen [07200] him; neither did he acknowledge [05234] his brethren [0251], nor knew [03045] his own children [01121]: for they have observed [08104] thy word [0565], and kept [05341] thy covenant [01285].
25 If thy brother [0251] be waxen poor [04134], and hath sold [04376] away some of his possession [0272], and if any of his kin [07138] come [0935] to redeem [01350] it, then shall he redeem [01350] that which his brother [0251] sold [04465].