Ezekiel 24:21

‘Tell the Israeli people [MTY] that I am about to destroy the temple, the building that you are very proud of, the building that you delight to look at. Your children whom you left in Jerusalem when you were forced to come to Babylon will be killed by their enemies’ swords.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

In Context

20So I said to them, “ This is what Yahweh told me:

22When that happens, you will do like I have done: You will not cover the lower part of your faces, or eat the kinds of food that people who are mourning usually eat.

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Cross References

1 Kings 9:7I will remove my Israeli people from the land that I have given to them. I will also abandon this temple that I have set apart/dedicated to be the place where people should worship me. Then people everywhere will despise the people of Israel and make fun of them.

Psalms 74:7Then they burned your temple to the ground; they caused that place where you were worshiped to be unfit for people to worship in.

Psalms 84:1Lord, you who are the Commander of the armies of angels, your temple is very beautiful!

Psalms 96:6Those who are in his presence honor him and can see that he is a great king. They can see in his temple that he is very powerful and is very beautiful.

Psalms 132:8Yahweh, come to the place where you live eternally, to the place where your sacred chest is, to that place that shows that you are very powerful.

Jeremiah 6:11So now I am extremely angry, like Yahweh is angry, and I cannot restrain it any longer.” So Yahweh said to me, “Tell everyone that you are very angry with them. Tell the children in the streets and the young men who gather together. Tell the men and their wives; tell the very old people [DOU], also.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 24:16-27

The Death of the Prophet's Wife; A Sign of Jerusalem's Ruin. ( b. c. 590.) 15 Also the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men. 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at… Read the whole commentary →

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