Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 33:21-29
B. Restoration to the Promised Land 33:21-39:29"The concept of the land is particularly significant to the six messages [Ezekiel 33:21 to Ezekiel 39:29] delivered in that one night before the news of Jerusalem’s fall reached the exiles in Babylonia [cf. Ezekiel 33:21-22]. Since Jerusalem had fallen, would the land be lost to Israel (Ezekiel 33:21-33)? It was the false ’shepherds’ of Israel who had lost the land for Israel by leading the people astray from the truth. But the true ’shepherd,’ the... read more
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 33:25
25. eat with the blood—in opposition to the law (Leviticus 19:26; compare Genesis 9:4). They did so as an idolatrous rite. read more