Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 12:13

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Ezekiel 12:13

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Ezekiel 12:13

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there." — Ezekiel 12:13 (ASV)

Yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. —The prophet does not explain how this could be, but Jeremiah (Jeremiah 52:11) makes it plain by recording that Zedekiah’s eyes were put out in Riblah before he was carried to Babylon. Josephus tells a curious story (Antiq. x. 7, § 2), that Zedekiah was inclined to believe Jeremiah’s warnings that he would be carried captive to Babylon; however, when Ezekiel sent this prophecy to Jerusalem, stating that Zedekiah would not see the land, he considered the two prophecies to be contradictory and so disbelieved them both. Zedekiah’s death in Babylon is mentioned in Jeremiah 52:11.