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It is not near – In contradiction to Ezekiel 7:2.
Let us build houses – “To build houses” implies a sense of…

It is not near; let us build houses. Neither the text nor the marginal reading of the Authorised Version quite accurately…

Here the Prophet explains what might be obscure through their perversity. He brings forward, therefore, what the ungodly thought could be covered b…

Which say [it is] not near, let us build houses
Meaning that the destruction of the city was not near, as the prophe…

Where Satan cannot persuade people to look upon the judgment to come as uncertain, he gains his point by persuading them to look upon it as distant…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes