Ezekiel 11:7
in Ezekiel 11Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.
KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
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This verse in Ezekiel 11
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
All that shall remain in the city are the buried dead. Bloodshed and murder were at this time rife in Jerusalem, and these were among the chief crimes that were bringing down judgment upon the city. All the inhabitants that should yet survive were destined to be carried away into exile.
This site's exposition
the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me
on Ezekiel 11:5-7
The Spirit falls on Ezekiel, and the Lord answers the leaders’ boast. “The slain you have laid within this city are the meat, and the city is the pot; but I will remove you from it.” The shelter they claimed is reversed, and their proverb is quoted to refute itself.
This site's exposition
the city is the pot
The LORD turns the leaders' saying back on them. The meat in the pot is the slain they have laid within the city, and the leaders themselves will be removed from it. Albert Barnes explains that the only ones to stay in Jerusalem will be the buried dead.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 2 onwards) And behold, at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and in their midst I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the princes of the people. And he said to me, Son of man, these men devise iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city, saying, 'The houses have been recently built. This is the pot, but we are the meat.' Therefore, prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
There shall none remain to keep possession of the city but those that are buried in it. There shall be no inhabitants of Jerusalem but the inhabitants of the graves there, no freemen of the city but the free among the dead.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,....
A message of comfort to those who were carried captives into Babylon and were there in the depth of despondency, thinking they should never rise. And, as the former are assured that God has judgments in store for them notwithstanding their present security, so the later are assured that God has mercy in store for them notwithstanding their present distress,
Let them know that when God has got them out of the midst of Jerusalem he will pursue them with his judgments wherever he finds them, the judgments which they thought to shelter themselves from by keeping close in Jerusalem.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Your slain - they are the flesh - Jerusalem is the caldron, and those who have been slain in it, they are the flesh; and though ye purpose to stay and share its fate, ye shall not be permitted to do so, ye shall be carried into captivity.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָכֵ֗ן | lakhen | <to> therefore | H3651 → | 771 times |
| כֹּֽה־ | koh- | thus | H3541 → | 577 times |
| אָמַר֮ | ʾamar | he says | H559 → | 5305 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֣י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִה֒ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
| חַלְלֵיכֶם֙ | chaleikhem | slain [ones] your | H2491 → | 94 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| שַׂמְתֶּ֣ם | samtem | you have put | H7760 → | 584 times |
| בְּתוֹכָ֔הּ | betokhah | in [the] midst of it | H8432 → | 418 times |
| הֵ֥מָּה | hemah | they | H1992 → | 553 times |
| הַבָּשָׂ֖ר | habasar | [are] the meat | H1320 → | 270 times |
| וְהִ֣יא | vehi' | and it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| הַסִּ֑יר | hasir | [is] the pot | H5518 → | 34 times |
| וְאֶתְכֶ֖ם | veetkhem | and <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הוֹצִ֥יא | hotzi' | he will bring out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| מִתּוֹכָֽהּ׃ | mitokhah | from [the] midst of it | H8432 → | 418 times |
לָכֵ֗ן<to> therefore
lakhenH3651 →771 times
כֹּֽה־thus
koh-H3541 →577 times
אָמַר֮he says
ʾamarH559 →5305 times
אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִה֒Yahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
חַלְלֵיכֶם֙slain [ones] your
chaleikhemH2491 →94 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
שַׂמְתֶּ֣םyou have put
samtemH7760 →584 times
בְּתוֹכָ֔הּin [the] midst of it
betokhahH8432 →418 times
הֵ֥מָּהthey
hemahH1992 →553 times
הַבָּשָׂ֖ר[are] the meat
habasarH1320 →270 times
וְהִ֣יאand it
vehi'H1931 →1879 times
הַסִּ֑יר[is] the pot
hasirH5518 →34 times
וְאֶתְכֶ֖םand <obj.> you
veetkhemH853 →10935 times
הוֹצִ֥יאhe will bring out
hotzi'H3318 →1067 times
מִתּוֹכָֽהּ׃from [the] midst of it
mitokhahH8432 →418 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.