8-12. In reply to the question of the exiles, who have finally been roused to interest, “What doest thou?” (Ezekiel 12:9,) Ezekiel on the following morning is permitted to explain the meaning of his acted parable. read more
10. This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem This is a very difficult phrase. Jeremiah had already used the word “burden” for a heavy and fear-inciting utterance of Jehovah (Jeremiah 23:33), and this may be the meaning here. Or does it mean that this bearing, or leading, has reference to the prince (Ezekiel 12:12), David’s son? This reference to the prince must have been very dangerous to the popularity of the prophet. Reverence for the king, “the son of David,” the “anointed of... read more
11. I am your sign It is no light thing to be set as a sign by the Lord. It is only the brave and consecrated man that God can so use. Few men have been great enough to be honored thus. Jehovah never takes the man clothed in fine linen, but the one clothed in sackcloth, when he would set a man as a sign before the world. read more
12. The prince… shall bear upon his shoulder, etc. The king of Israel is represented as carrying upon his own shoulder all the load which his people carries and is there not also upon him the heavier “burden” of fulfilled prophecy? (See note Ezekiel 12:6; Ezekiel 12:10.) read more
13. My net also will I spread upon him The attempt to escape shall be a failure. The Babylonian king shall capture the fugitives and carry them to Chaldea, but the net in which they are taken is not Nebuchadnezzar’s, but Jehovah’s. These shrewd “captains” might have outwitted Nebuzaradan, but they could not evade the Almighty (Jeremiah 39:4-7; Hosea 7:12; Ezekiel 17:20; Ezekiel 32:3). Yet shall he not see it This explicit prophecy, that his eyes should be put out, was literally fulfilled... read more
14, 15. See notes Ezekiel 5:1-13. To Ezekiel Jehovah (Lord) was the equivalent of justice and holiness; and when he said, “They shall know Jehovah,” he meant that the divine justice and holiness would then be demonstrated. read more
16. I will leave a few This is the “remnant” which represents the true Israel, and which shall show to the heathen the beauty of monotheism as compared with the “abominations” of idolatry and thus carry even into Chaldea the recognition of the true God (Ezekiel 6:8-10; Ezekiel 14:22-23; Ezekiel 20:9, etc.). read more
17-19. Eat thy bread with quaking, etc. This is the same symbolic act, indicating the famished condition of the population of Jerusalem together with their fear and shuddering, which Ezekiel had previously performed during his long and toilsome siege of the mimic city (Ezekiel 4:9-12; Ezekiel 4:16). Recent events may have made the repetition of this picture-sermon more impressive than it had been previously. Desolate from all that is therein [literally, from its fullness ], because,... read more
21, 22. Those who are skeptical regarding the literal fulfillment of prophecy, and comfort themselves with the thought that they have often heard such threats of judgment but time passes (“the days are prolonged”) and every vision has failed thus far, are told that the crisis is at hand. read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 12:7
7. I did so as I was commanded Whether Ezekiel actually dug through the walls of Tel-abib or through the walls which surrounded the mimic city prepared within his own house (Ezekiel 4:1) is not said, but the latter is far more probable. It was the tile, and not Tel-abib, which the exiles had learned to think of as the besieged city. read more