Ezekiel 12

Ezekiel 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet/priest Ezekiel, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. In this chapter, Ezekiel undertakes the "mime of the emigrant" and the chapter concludes with condemnation of some "popular proverbs".

Text

The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 28 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Signs of the coming captivity (12:1–20)

Verses 1-2

There is a similar expression in Mark 8 in the New Testament: ''Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?''

Verse 12

The fulfillment of this verse is noted in 2 Kings 25, Jeremiah 39 and Jeremiah 52 as follows:
The plain: "or Arabah, that is, the Jordan Valley" in NKJV notes.
The plain: "or Arabah, that is, the Jordan Valley" in NKJV notes.

Verse 13

"Snare" : a kind of "trap; hunting net," figurately as someone's "judgment."

The fulfillment of this verse is noted in 2 Kings 25, Jeremiah 39 and Jeremiah 52, which describe the capture of King Zedekiah and his eventual death. Zedekiah's eyes were put out and so he would die in Babylon without being able to see that country:

The presumptuous proverb (12:21–28)

Verse 22

Methodist commentator Joseph Benson describes this saying as "the words of scoffers, who turned the grace of God into wantonness, and took encouragement from his patience and long-suffering, to despise his threatenings, as if they would never be fulfilled".

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