Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 6:7
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
7. I am the Lord ] The term Jehovah is used in the later prophets to mean the true and only God. In this prophet the purpose and the effect of all the judgments on Israel is that they may know that he who inflicts them is Jehovah God alone. The same is the purpose and effect of his judgments on the heathen these learn also the same truth. But further, the redemption of Israel reveals this truth to the heathen fully. When the idols were cut down to the ground and the bones of their worshippers lay scattered around them, the futility of serving them could not but be perceived; Jer 2:28, “where are thy gods that thou hast made? let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble.” Cf. Hos 2:7; Isa 57:12-13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The force of the words is, When the slain shall fall in the midst of you, then at last ye shall know that I am the Lord. So in Eze 6:10 where the knowledge implies a recognition of the merciful intent of Yahwehs dispensations, and therefore, a hope of restoration.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Eze 6:7
Ye shall know that I am the Lord.
The knowledge of Jehovah
The phrase Ye shall know that I am Jehovah may mean Ye shall know that I who now speak am truly Jehovah, the God of Israel. There is, of course, no doubt that Ezekiel conceived Jehovah as endowed with the plenitude of deity, or that in his view the name expressed all that we mean by the word God. Nevertheless, historically the name Jehovah is a proper name, denoting the God who is the God of Israel. Renan has ventured on the assertion that a deity with a proper name is necessarily a false God. The statement perhaps measures the difference between the God of revealed religion and the god who is an abstraction, an expression of the order of the universe, who exists only in the mind of the man who names him. The God of revelation is a living person with a character and will of His own capable of being known by man. It is the distinction of revelation that it dares to regard God as an individual with an inner life and nature of His own, independent of the conception men may form of Him. Applied to such a Being, a personal name may be as true and significant as the name which expresses the character and individuality of a man. Only thus can we understand the historical process by which the God who was first manifested as the deity of a particular nation preserves His personal identity with the God who in Christ is at last revealed as the God of the spirits of all flesh. The knowledge of Jehovah of which Ezekiel speaks is therefore at once a knowledge of the character of the God whom Israel professed to serve, and a knowledge of that which constitutes true and essential divinity. (John Skinner, M. A.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
When the slain shall fall thus in your sight, you shall know two things you would not regard before.
1. That idols are vanity and snares.
2. That I am the Lord, who do avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Or, may it not be turned, And the profane shall fall, i.e. the idols, and altars; and other implements of idol-worship, made holy by unholy men, shall be profaned and east down, defiled and trod under foot in the sight of the Jews, as God threatens; then they shall know God is the only Lord and God. I conjecture at this by Ezekiels being among the Chaldeans some years, who had gotten somewhat of their tongue; and the word here used, which is rendered slain, and I render profane, doth in the Chaldee signify profane, and is so rendered, Eze 21:25. If so rendered here, it will better suit with the foregoing verse, and more fitly sum up that discourse and close it. See Eze 6:10,12.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7. ye shall know that I am theLordand not your idols, lords. Ye shall know Me as theall-powerful Punisher of sin.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you,…. The word for slain is in the singular number, which perhaps is put for the plural; and so the Septuagint renders it; unless it should design some principal person that should be slain; but, as King Zedekiah was not slain when the city was taken, only his sons and his princes, it seems best to understand it of the multitude that were slain in the midst of the land, not only in Jerusalem, but in all the cities of Judea; and denotes how general and public the destruction would be:
and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord; the only true God, and Governor of the world; who only is to be worshipped, feared, and served, and not idols.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Here the Prophet adds a small clause to his former threats, namely, that God would so consume the whole people with slaughter, that they would be compelled to acknowledge him as Jehovah. The slain, therefore, shall fall in the midst of thee, that is, the enemy shall arise who shall cause slaughter everywhere through the midst of the land. As to the phrase, I am Jehovah, it refers to the prophecy; for the Israelites did not openly deny God, but because they had no faith in the words of the Prophet, hence God appears and confirms and establishes the authority of the prophetic teaching, when he shows that an avenger was at hand if it was despised, as we know it was despised; and this he will soon explain a little more clearly. It follows now —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(7) And ye shall know.As this prophecy began in Eze. 6:2 with an address to the mountains, many consider that, by a strong poetic figure, they are still referred to by the pronoun ye. It is better, however, to consider that as the discourse has gone on, the figure has gradually been dropped, and the people are spoken to directly. In the same way, the change of the pronoun from the third to the second person, as in Eze. 6:5, is very frequent in Ezekiel.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7. Ye shall know that I am the Lord See also Eze 6:13. This is to be the result of these terrible chastisements. Both the heathen and Israel will be forced to acknowledge that the one true God is the God who can protect his own honor, preserve those who are his true worshipers, and punish like a mighty God those who scorn and apostatize. He is not a God who is afar off; he is the very present “I am;” a God who is merciful and gracious, but who will not spare the guilty.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Eze 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.
Ver. 7. And ye shall know that I am the Lord. ] That I am dicti mei Dominus, one that will be as good as my word. So shall all, not idolaters only, but broachers of heresies also, quae furore et foetere cultores suos faciunt, saith Oecolampadius here.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the slain = a slain one.
ye shall know that am the LORD, This formula occurs twenty-one times in Ezekiel: five times at the beginning of a verse (Eze 6:13; Eze 11:12; Eze 20:42, Eze 20:44; Eze 37:13); five times in the middle of a verse (7, 9; Eze 15:7; Eze 17:21; Eze 22:22; Eze 37:14); and eleven times at the end of the verse (Eze 6:7; Eze 7:4; Eze 11:10; Eze 12:20; Eze 13:14; Eze 14:8; Eze 20:38; Eze 25:5; Eze 25:35, Eze 25:9; Eze 36:11; Eze 37:6). In two instances, which are thus safe-guarded (see App-93), the verb is feminine. (Eze 13:21, Eze 13:23). Outside Ezekiel it occurs only twice (Exo 10:2. 1Ki 20:28). See Ginsburg’s Massorah, vol. i, pp 467, 468, 122, 128. For another formula, see note on Eze 6:10, and Eze 13:9.
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slain: Eze 9:7, Jer 14:18, Jer 18:21, Jer 25:33, Lam 2:20, Lam 2:21, Lam 4:9
and ye: Eze 6:13, Eze 7:4, Eze 7:9, Eze 11:10, Eze 11:12, Eze 12:15, Eze 13:9, Eze 13:14, Eze 13:21, Eze 13:23, Eze 14:8, Eze 15:7, Eze 20:38, Eze 20:42, Eze 20:44, Eze 23:49, Eze 24:24, Eze 24:27, Eze 25:17, Eze 26:6, Eze 28:23, Eze 30:26, Eze 35:15, Eze 38:23, Exo 7:5, Exo 14:4, Exo 14:18, 2Ki 19:19, Psa 83:17, Psa 83:18, Dan 4:35-37, Dan 6:26, Dan 6:27
Reciprocal: 1Ki 20:13 – and thou shalt Jer 16:21 – I will this Eze 6:10 – General Eze 12:19 – that her Eze 16:62 – and thou Eze 17:21 – shall know Eze 20:26 – to the end Eze 22:16 – thou shalt know Eze 32:15 – then Eze 33:29 – shall Eze 35:4 – and thou Eze 35:9 – and ye Eze 35:12 – And thou Eze 37:6 – ye shall
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 6:7. The sight of slain men right in t.he midst of the multitude of idols would prove their frailty. The logical conclusion that such a situation should suggest is that I am the Lord, meaning the Cod of Israel is the true Lord,