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God Twists a Proverb
Commentators explain that God takes the leaders' own cynical proverb—that Jerusalem is a protective cauldron and they are the safe flesh inside—and turns it against them. God declares that the only "flesh" remaining in the "cauldron" of the city will be the dead bodies of those the leaders have unjustly killed. The living leaders, far from being safe, will be dragged out for judgment and exile.
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Ezekiel
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Albert Barnes
On Ezekiel 11:7
18th Century
Theologian
All that will remain in the city are the buried dead. Bloodshed and murder were at this time rife in Jerusalem, and these were among the chief crim…
Charles Ellicott
On Ezekiel 11:7
19th Century
Bishop
Your slain ... they are the flesh.—They had boasted of the protection of their strong city: it would be a security only to the dead who ha…
John Calvin
On Ezekiel 11:6–7
16th Century
Theologian
Now Ezekiel attacks, as it were, in close combat, the buffoons who trifled with God by their jests, and brings forward that sense which I have just…
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John Gill
On Ezekiel 11:7
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore thus says the Lord God Applying the parabolical expressions they had derided, and explaining them, in a differe…
Matthew Henry
On Ezekiel 11:1–13
17th Century
Minister
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…