Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 11:21 - 11:21

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ezekiel 11:21 - 11:21


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For all those promises, and in the best times, some there will be who will refuse to own God and obey him, whose state shall as much differ as their practices did from the people of God.



As for them, whoever they be.



Heart, soul and affections, whose choice and love,



walketh after; either secretly adhereth to or provideth for the service of idols, called here detestable things, as Eze_11:18, Eze_5:11; and to express the obstinacy of this idolatry, it is called a



heart walking after a heart: idolatry is a bewitching sin, and steals away the heart and the promoters of idolatry propose the plausiblest arguments, as if idols had hearts and affections toward their worshippers to do them good; the expression in the Hebrew is somewhat unusual and harsh to our ear, but this I take to be the meaning.



Their abominations; their idols, and idol worship, and dependencies.



Recompense; pay them in their own coin: they forsake me, I will forsake them; they profane my name and temple, I will give them up as common to be profaned by the Chaldeans. Their way tends to this, and shall end in this, and nothing more just.



Upon their heads, i.e. on each man, and in such manner as shall destroy the contumacious. Or, on those that are as heads of the people and ringleaders in obstinacy of sinning, such as the twenty-five, Eze_11:1, and who shall be examples of my speedy and irresistible vengeance, as Pelatiah was.