--- title: "Clarke" description: "Verse Ezekiel 11:1. At the door of the gate five and twenty men — The same persons, no doubt, who appear, Ezekiel 8:16, worshipping the sun. Jaazaniah the" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/ezekiel/11" --- Verse [Ezekiel 11:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/1). ***At the door of the gate five and twenty men*** — The same persons, no doubt, who appear, [Ezekiel 8:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/8/16), worshipping the sun. ***Jaazaniah the son of Azur*** — In [Ezekiel 8:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/8/16), we find a *Jaazaniah* the son of *Shaphan*. If *Shaphan* was also called *Azur,* they may be the same person. But it is most likely that there were two of this name, and both chiefs among the people. Verse [Ezekiel 11:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/3). ***It is not near*** — That is, the threatened invasion. ***This*****city is*****the caldron, and we*****be*****the flesh.*** — See the vision of the *seething pot*, [Jeremiah 1:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/1/13). These infidels seem to say: "We will run all risks, we will abide in the city. Though it be the *caldron*, and we the *flesh*, yet we will share its fate: if it perish, we will perish with it." Or they may allude to the above prediction of Jeremiah, in order to ridicule it: "We were to have been *boiled* long ago: but the fulfilment of that prediction is not near yet." Verse [Ezekiel 11:7](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/7). ***Your slain - they*****are*****the flesh*** — Jerusalem is the *caldron*, and those who have been slain in it, they are the flesh; and though ye purpose to stay and share its fate, ye shall not be permitted to do so, ye shall be carried into captivity. Verse [Ezekiel 11:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/9). ***And deliver you into the hands of strangers*** — This seems to refer chiefly to Zedekiah and his family. Verse [Ezekiel 11:11](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/11). ***I will judge you in the border of Israel,*** — Though *Riblah* was in Syria, yet it was on the very *frontiers* of Israel; and it was here that Zedekiah's sons were slain, and his own eyes put out. Verse [Ezekiel 11:13](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/13). ***Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.*** — Most probably he was struck dead the very hour in which Ezekiel prophesied against him. His death appears to have resembled that of Ananias and Sapphira, [Acts 5:1](../../../kjv/acts/5/1), &c. Verse [Ezekiel 11:15](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/15). ***Get you far from the Lord*** — These are the words of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, against those of Israel who had been carried away to Babylon with Jeconiah. *Go ye far from the Lord*: but as for us, the land of Israel is given to us for a possession, we shall never be removed from it, and *they* shall never return to it. Verse [Ezekiel 11:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/16). ***Yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary*** — Though thus exiled from their own land, yet not forgotten by their God. While in their captivity, I will dispense many blessings to them; and I will restore them to their own land, [Ezekiel 11:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/17), from which they shall put away all idolatry, [Ezekiel 11:18](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/18). Verse [Ezekiel 11:19](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/19). ***And I will give them one heart*** — A whole system of *renewed affections*. ***And I will put a new spirit within you*** — To direct and influence these new affections. ***And I will take the stony heart out of their flesh*** — That which would not receive the impressions of my Spirit. ***And will give them a heart of flesh*** — One that is capable of receiving and retaining these impressions. Verse [Ezekiel 11:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/20). ***That they may walk in my statutes*** — The holiness of their lives shall prove the work of God upon their hearts. Then it shall appear that *I am their God*, because I have done such things *in* them and *for* them; and their *holy conduct* shall show that they are *my people*. [Ezekiel 36:25](../../../kjv/ezekiel/36/25), &c. Verse [Ezekiel 11:21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/21). ***But*****as for them*****whose heart walketh*** — Them whose affections are attached to idolatry, they shall have such reward as their idols can give them, and such a recompense as Divine justice shall award them. Verse [Ezekiel 11:23](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/23). ***The glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the**********city*** — This vision is no mean proof of the *long-suffering of God*. He did not abandon this people *all at once*; he departed by *little* *and little*. FIRST, he left the *temple*. SECONDLY, he stopped a little at the gate of the city. THIRDLY, he departed entirely from the city and went to the *Mount of Olives*, which lay on the *east* side of the city. Having tarried there for some time to see i! they would repent and turn to him - FOURTHLY, he departed to *heaven*. The vision being now concluded, the prophet is taken away by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, and there announces to the captive Israelites what God had showed him in the preceding visions, and the good that he had spoken concerning them; who at first did not seem to profit much by them, which the prophet severely reproves. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/ezekiel/11#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/images/missing.jpg","width":640,"height":370,"caption":"Clarke's Commentary - Ezekiel 11"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/ezekiel/11#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/ezekiel/11","name":"Clarke's Commentary - Ezekiel 11","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/clarkes-commentary/ezekiel/11#primaryimage"},"datePublished":null,"dateModified":null,"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Verse Ezekiel 11:1. 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