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Ezekiel 12:10

in Ezekiel 12

Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are there.’

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.

KJV

Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

This verse in Ezekiel 12

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Say thou unto them, thus saith the Lord God,.... In answer to their sneering question; or notwithstanding their stupidity and indolence, and in order to awaken them out of it: this burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem; the present reigning prince in Jerusalem, King Zedekiah.

This site's exposition

in the morning came the word of the Lord

on Ezekiel 12:8-11

The interpretation arrives the next morning, after the sign has already been watched rather than before it, so that the people's own question, what doest thou, is answered only once curiosity has been earned. The Lord names the burden's target directly, the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel among them, so the acted parable is not a riddle about Ezekiel's own fate but a rehearsal of theirs. Ezekiel is told to say, I am your sign, and the formula that follows, like as I have done so shall it be done unto them, turns the prophet's own body into a preview of the coming event. Fairbairn notes that this is the clearest statement in the book of what a sign act is for, not decoration but a small scale enactment of the very thing it predicts.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Burden - A word used to indicate a prediction of woe to be borne by some individual or people (Isa 13:1 note). Ezekiel, bearing his “stuff” on his shoulder was a sign of the weight of calamity coming upon king and people.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

JOSEPHUS [Antiquities, 10.7] reports that Ezekiel sent a copy of this prophecy to Zedekiah. As Jeremiah had sent a letter to the captives at the Chebar, which was the means of calling forth at first the agency of Ezekiel, so it was natural for Ezekiel to send a message to Jerusalem confirming the warnings of Jeremiah.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

[Concerning] the prince is this burden Concerning King Zedekiah, I am showing this מַשָּׂא, burden, an expression denoting prophecy.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Ezekiel 12:10:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • אֱמֹ֣רsay

    ʾemorH5595305 times

  • אֲלֵיהֶ֔םto them

    ʾaleihemH4135510 times

  • כֹּ֥הthus

    kohH3541577 times

  • אָמַ֖רhe says

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136440 times

  • יְהֹוִ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3069306 times

  • הַנָּשִׂ֞יא[is] the prince

    hanasi'H5387134 times

  • הַמַּשָּׂ֤אthe oracle

    hamasa'H4853

  • הַזֶּה֙<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

  • בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔םin Jerusalem

    birushalamH3389643 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH10042046 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • הֵ֥מָּהthey

    hemahH1992553 times

  • בְתוֹכָֽם׃[are] in midst of them

    vetokhamH8432418 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 9:25

    And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab,…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 13:1

      This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 21:19

      Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where…

  • Through

    Isaiah 13:1

    This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 47:1–15

      “Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

    • Jeremiah 50:1

      This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:

    • Isaiah 1:1

      This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

    • Revelation 17:1–18

      Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

    • Daniel 5:6

      his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

  • Through

    Isaiah 14:28

    In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 16:20

      And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.