Eze 13:9, 14:8, 15:7, Mic 3:6 | JFB | STEP | 9. mine hand —My power in vengeance. not . . . in . . . assembly —rather, the "council"; "They shall not occupy the honorable office of councillors in the senate of elders after the return from Babylon" ( ). neither . . . written in . . . Israel —They shall not even have a place in the register kept of all citizens' names; they shall be erased from it, just as the names of those who died in the year, or had been deprived of citizenship for their crimes, were at the annual revisal erased. Compare , as to those spiritually Israelites; , and those not so. Literally fulfilled ( ; compare ). neither . . . enter . . . land —They shall not so much as be allowed to come back at all to their country.

Ezekiel 13:9

9. mine hand—My power in vengeance.

not . . . in . . . assembly—rather, the "council"; "They shall not occupy the honorable office of councillors in the senate of elders after the return from Babylon" (Ezr 2:1, 2).

neither . . . written in . . . Israel—They shall not even have a place in the register kept of all citizens' names; they shall be erased from it, just as the names of those who died in the year, or had been deprived of citizenship for their crimes, were at the annual revisal erased. Compare Jer 17:13; Lu 10:20; Re 3:5, as to those spiritually Israelites; Joh 1:47, and those not so. Literally fulfilled (Ezr 2:59, 62; compare Ne 7:5; Ps 69:28).

neither . . . enter . . . land—They shall not so much as be allowed to come back at all to their country.

Ezekiel 14:8

8. And I will set my face against that man—(See on Le 17:10).

and will make him a sign—literally, "I will destroy him so as to become a sign"; it will be no ordinary destruction, but such as will make him be an object pointed at with wonder by all, as Korah, &c. (Nu 26:10; De 28:37).

Ezekiel 15:7

7. And I will set my face against them—(See on Le 17:10).

from one fire . . . another—(Compare Isa 24:18). "Fire" means here every kind of calamity (Ps 66:12). The Jewish fugitives shall escape from the ruin of Jerusalem, only to fall into some other calamity.

Micah 3:6

6. night . . . dark—Calamities shall press on you so overwhelming as to compel you to cease pretending to divine (Zec 13:4). Darkness is often the image of calamity (Isa 8:22; Am 5:18; 8:9).