Ezekiel 19:12

Bishop's Bible

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Contextual Overview

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she was: The kingdom was entirely ruined, and her princes cut off. Ezekiel 15:6-8, Psalms 52:5, Psalms 80:12, Psalms 80:13, Psalms 80:16, Psalms 89:40-45, Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 5:6, Jeremiah 31:28

the east: Ezekiel 17:10, Jeremiah 4:11, Jeremiah 4:12, Hosea 13:15

strong: Ezekiel 19:11, 2 Kings 23:29, 2 Kings 23:34, 2 Kings 24:6, 2 Kings 24:14-16, 2 Kings 25:6, 2 Kings 25:7, Jeremiah 22:10, Jeremiah 22:11, Jeremiah 22:18, Jeremiah 22:19, Jeremiah 22:25-27, Jeremiah 22:30

the fire: Ezekiel 15:4, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 20:48, Deuteronomy 32:22, Isaiah 27:11, Matthew 3:10, John 15:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:6 - blasted Numbers 17:8 - budded Isaiah 27:8 - his rough Jeremiah 12:17 - pluck Jeremiah 51:1 - a destroying wind Ezekiel 17:5 - he placed Jonah 4:8 - that God Habakkuk 1:9 - their faces shall sup up as the east

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

But she was plucked up in fury,.... This vine being turned into a degenerate plant of a strange vine; or the people of the Jews becoming wicked, disobedient to God, and disregarding his laws and ordinances, the wrath of God came upon them, and let in the Assyrians among them, who carried off ten tribes at once; and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin not taking warning hereby, but continuing and increasing in sinful courses, great part of them were carried captive into Babylon, with their king Jeconiah, who succeeded Jehoiakim before mentioned; when the kingdom seemed to be utterly ruined and destroyed, and is what is here referred to:

she was cast down to the ground; a phrase expressive of, he entire overthrow of the nation; for a vine, though plucked up, yet, if immediately planted again, might grow; but being plucked up, and left on the ground, and there lie, there is no hope of it; so that this denotes the desperate case of this people at this time, being in captivity. So the Targum paraphrases both clauses,

"and it was rooted up with strength out of the land of the house of the Shechinah, and translated into another land;''

and the east wind dried up her fruit; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and the Chaldean army, compared to an east wind, because hurtful and pernicious, as that is to trees and fruit, and because Babylon lay northeast of Judea; the people of, he land are meant by the fruit of the vine, with their wealth and riches, which were seized upon and wasted, or carried into Babylon. So the Targum,

"and a king strong as the east wind slew her people;''

her strong rods were broken and withered; or, "strong rod"; the singular for the plural; which may design King Jeconiah particularly, who with his mother, wives, princes, and officers, and the mighty of the land, even all the mighty men of valour, with the craftsmen and smiths, were taken and carried captive, 2 Kings 24:14;

the fire consumed them; the wrath of God, which is often compared to fire, the same with fury in the beginning of the verse; which shows that it was for sin, which had provoked the Lord to wrath and anger, that all this ruin came upon the Jewish nation. The Targum is,

"her strong governors removed, and were carried captive; and the people which are strong, as fire consumed them.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is a dirge; and therefore that which is foreseen by the prophet, the capture and burning of Jerusalem, is described as already accomplished.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 19:12. But she was plucked up in fury — Jerusalem; taken after a violent and most destructive siege; Nebuchadnezzar being violently enraged against Zedekiah for breaking his oath to him.

She was cast down to the ground — Jerusalem was totally ruined, by being burned to the ground.

Her strong rods were broken — The children of Zedekiah were slain before his eyes, and after that his own eyes pulled out; and he was laden with chains, and carried into Babylon.