Ezekiel 24:25
Then Yahweh said to me, “You human, soon I will destroy their sacred temple, which they rejoice about and which they respect and delight to look at, and I will get rid of their sons and daughters also.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
26On that day, someone will escape from Jerusalem and come and tell you what has happened there.
Cross References
Psalms 48:2That city, on a high hill, is beautiful; it is the city where the true God, the great king, lives, and it causes people all over the world to rejoice when they see it.
Psalms 122:1I was glad/happy when people said to me, “We should go to the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem!”
Jeremiah 11:22So the Commander of the armies of angels said about them, “I will punish them. Their young men will be killed in wars, and their children will die because they have no food.
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.
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 →