Ezekiel 11:14-25

Israel's New Heart and Spirit

14 And the word of the LORD came to me:

15 ¹"Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen,^[a] the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ²'Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.'

16 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet ³I have been a sanctuary to them for a while^[b] in the countries where they have gone.'

17 Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: ⁴I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, ⁵and I will give you the land of Israel.'

18 And when they come there, ⁶they will remove from it all its ⁷detestable things and all its abominations.

19 ⁸And I will give them one heart, and ⁹a new spirit I will put within them. ¹⁰I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh ¹¹and give them a heart of flesh,

20 ¹²that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. ¹³And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

21 ¹⁴But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, ¹⁵I will^[c] bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD."

22 ¹⁶Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, ¹⁷and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

23 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and ¹⁸stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.

24 ¹⁹And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me ²⁰in the vision by the Spirit of God ²¹into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.

25 And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me.

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Ezekiel 11:14-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 11

This chapter contains an account of the sins of the princes of Judah; a prophecy of their destruction; some comfortable, promises respecting those of the captivity; and the chapter is closed with the finishing of the vision of the Lord's removing from Jerusalem; and the whole being ended, the prophet related it to the men of the captivity. In Eze 11:1; the prophet, is shown five and twenty men, among whom were two he knew, and are mentioned by name, and were princes of the people; and he is told that these men devised mischief, and gave bad advice to the people, Eze 11:2,3; wherefore he is bid to prophesy against them, Eze 11:4; which he accordingly did, the Spirit of the Lord falling upon him, Eze 11:5; declaring that their secret evils were known, as well as their public ones; and that, seeing they had multiplied their slain, and had feared the sword, the sword should come upon them; some should fall by it, and others should be carried captive; the consequence of which would be, that God would be known, and his justice acknowledged, it being what their sins deserved, Eze 11:6-12; upon this prophecy being delivered out, one of the princes before named died immediately; which filled the prophet with great concern, and put him upon expostulating with God, Eze 11:13; wherefore, for his comfort, he is told, that though the inhabitants of Jerusalem had insulted their brethren that were carried captive, and looked upon the land of Israel as their own possession, that God would be a little sanctuary to them; that he would gather them out of all lands, and give them the land of Israel; that they should come thither, and remove all idolatry from it, and should have regenerating and renewing grace given them, to walk in the statutes and ordinances of the Lord, by which they should appear to be his people, and he to be their God, Eze 11:14-20; but as for such that continued in their abominable idolatries, these should receive a just recompence of reward, Eze 11:21; after which follows an account of the entire removal of the glory of the Lord from the city of Jerusalem, Eze 11:22,23; and the prophet being, in vision, brought again to Chaldea, reports the whole he had seen to them of the captivity, Eze 11:24,25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 21

1. See Ezekiel 2:1
2. [1 Samuel 26:19]
3. [Ezekiel 37:26, 28; Isaiah 8:14; Revelation 21:22]
4. Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 36:24; Ezekiel 37:21; [Ezekiel 38:8; Ezekiel 39:27; Isaiah 11:12]
5. Ezekiel 20:41; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 34:13; Ezekiel 36:24; Ezekiel 37:21; [Ezekiel 38:8; Ezekiel 39:27; Isaiah 11:12]
6. Ezekiel 37:23
7. Ezekiel 5:11
8. Jeremiah 32:39; [Acts 4:32]
9. Ezekiel 36:26; [Ezekiel 18:31; Psalms 51:10; Jeremiah 31:33]
10. [Zechariah 7:12]
11. [2 Corinthians 3:3]
12. Psalms 105:45
13. Ezekiel 14:11; Ezekiel 36:28; Leviticus 26:12; See Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 31:33
14. See Ezekiel 9:4-6
15. See Ezekiel 7:4
16. Ezekiel 10:19
17. Ezekiel 10:19
18. Zechariah 14:4; [Ezekiel 43:2]
19. ver. 1; See Ezekiel 3:12
20. See Ezekiel 1:1
21. [Ezekiel 1:3]

Footnotes 3

[a]. Hebrew the men of your redemption
[b]. Or in small measure
[c]. Hebrew To the heart of their detestable things and their abominations their heart goes; I will

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