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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 12:1 - 12:1
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Eze 12:1-28. Ezekiel’s typical moving to exile: Prophecy of Zedekiah’s captivity and privation of sight: The Jews’ unbelieving surmise as to the distance of the event reproved.
eyes to see, and see not, ... ears to hear, and hear not - fulfilling the prophecy of Deu 29:4, here quoted by Ezekiel (compare Isa 6:9; Jer 5:21). Ezekiel needed often to be reminded of the people’s perversity, lest he should be discouraged by the little effect produced by his prophecies. Their “not seeing” is the result of perversity, not incapacity. They are willfully blind. The persons most interested in this prophecy were those dwelling at Jerusalem; and it is among them that Ezekiel was transported in spirit, and performed in vision, not outwardly, the typical acts. At the same time, the symbolical prophecy was designed to warn the exiles at Chebar against cherishing hopes, as many did in opposition to God’s revealed word, of returning to Jerusalem, as if that city was to stand; externally living afar off, their hearts dwelt in that corrupt and doomed capital.