Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
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Gill's Exposition
You trust in it, and think to support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it by that means. So the Targum,
"you stand in your strength:''
ye work abomination; that which is…
The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Eze 33:23-29; then he…
Adam Clarke
Abraham was one - If he was called to inherit the land when he was alone, and had the whole to himself, why may we not expect to be established here, who are his posterity, and are many? They wished…
Here we have,
I. The tidings brought to Ezekiel of the burning of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The city was burnt in the eleventh year of the captivity and the fifth month, Jer 52:12, Jer 52:13.…
Cambridge Bible
Regarding those remaining in the land even before the fall of the city, cf. Eze 11:5-12; Eze 11:14-21; Jeremiah 24. Those remaining in the land express their confident hopes. Though reduced in numbers…
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