Ezekiel 11:9
in Ezekiel 11I will bring you out of the city and deliver you into the hands of foreigners, and I will execute judgments against you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
KJV
And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
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This verse in Ezekiel 11
Commentary
7 notes on this verseAnd I will bring you out of the midst thereof,.... Jerusalem, the cauldron, as they said it was, and where they thought they should be safe; this is repeated, to express the certainty of it, and to excite their attention to it, and remove their vain confidence: and deliver you into the hands of strangers; the Chaldeans: and will execute judgments among you; punishments for sin, such as famine, pestilence, sword, and captivity.
This site's exposition
You fear the sword
on Ezekiel 11:8-12
“You fear the sword, so I will bring the sword against you,” and the leaders are handed “into the hands of foreigners.” The recognition formula comes twice, in verses 10 and 12. The charge is imitation of the nations: “you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
This site's exposition
deliver you into the hands of foreigners
The leaders who trusted the city as their shelter will be brought out of it and handed over to foreigners. Adam Clarke applies this chiefly to Zedekiah and his family. Their judgment comes at foreign hands.
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 Awakening2 voices
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.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
And deliver you into the hands of strangers - This seems to refer chiefly to Zedekiah and his family.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
by the border of Israel At the end of the boundary; that is Riblah, the land of Hamath, which is Antioch. There Zedekiah was judged by Nebuchadnezzar, as is stated in the Book of (II) Kings (25: 6f.). There he slaughtered his sons, there he put out his eyes.
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. 4 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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהוֹצֵאתִ֤י | vehotzeti | and I will bring out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| אֶתְכֶם֙ | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| מִתּוֹכָ֔הּ | mitokhah | from [the] midst of it | H8432 → | 418 times |
| וְנָתַתִּ֥י | venatati | and I will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֖ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בְּיַד־ | beyad- | in [the] hand of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| זָרִ֑ים | zarim | strangers | H2114 → | 77 times |
| וְעָשִׂ֛יתִי | veasiti | and I will bring about | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| בָכֶ֖ם | vakhem | on you | ||
| שְׁפָטִֽים׃ | shefatim | judgments | H8201 → | 16 times |
וְהוֹצֵאתִ֤יand I will bring out
vehotzetiH3318 →1067 times
אֶתְכֶם֙<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
מִתּוֹכָ֔הּfrom [the] midst of it
mitokhahH8432 →418 times
וְנָתַתִּ֥יand I will give
venatatiH5414 →2011 times
אֶתְכֶ֖ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
בְּיַד־in [the] hand of
beyad-H3027 →1618 times
זָרִ֑יםstrangers
zarimH2114 →77 times
וְעָשִׂ֛יתִיand I will bring about
veasitiH6213 →2628 times
בָכֶ֖םon you
vakhem
שְׁפָטִֽים׃judgments
shefatimH8201 →16 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Deuteronomy 28:36The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 4:28
And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- Jeremiah 16:13
So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you…
- 2 Kings 25:11
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
- 2 Chronicles 36:20
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- 2 Chronicles 36:6
Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.
- Deuteronomy 4:28
Through
Ezekiel 16:41Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 23:48
So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.
- Ezekiel 23:27
So I will put an end to your indecency and prostitution, which began in the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.’
- Ezekiel 23:48
Through
Ezekiel 5:8Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- Jeremiah 24:9
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.