Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
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Gill's Exposition
So will I stretch out mine hand upon them,.... Not unto them, in a way of mercy; but upon, or against them, in a way of judgment. The Targum paraphrases it,
"and I will lift up the stroke of my…
The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment. Eze 6:11 Smite ... stamp - Well-known modes of expressing grief. Eze 6:13 Sweet savor…
The same threatenings which we had before in the foregoing chapter, and in the former part of this, are here repeated, with a direction to the prophet to lament them, that those he prophesied to might…
Cambridge Bible
Comp. Eze 6:6 on the effect of these judgments on the minds of the people. On "idols," cf. Eze 6:6. The cumulative phrases "in all the tops of the mountains," and "under every thick oak" are wanting…
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