13<\/strong>. The king’s flight shall be unavailing; he shall be captured and brought blinded to Babylon, where he shall die. As the Lord fought against Jerusalem in the siege, so it is he that ensures the capture of the king. It is in his net that he is ensnared and taken; Hos 7:12<\/span>, “when they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of heaven.” Cf. Eze 17:20<\/span>; Eze 32:3<\/span>.<\/p>\n yet shall he not see it<\/em> ] The eyes of Zedekiah were put out by Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah. 2Ki 25:5<\/span> seq<\/em>.; Jer 52:8<\/span>; Jer 52:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n Compare Jer 52:9<\/span> ff<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 13<\/span>. I will bring – him to Babylon – yet shall he not see it<\/B><\/I>] Because Nebuchadnezzar caused him to have his eyes put out at Riblah<\/I>. To Babylon he was carried in his blind state, and there he died. In saying, My net also will I spread upon him<\/I>, there is probably a reference to an ancient manner of fighting. One, who was called the retiarius<\/I>, had a small casting net, which if he could throw over his antagonist’s head, he then despatched him with his sword; if he missed his throw, he was obliged to run in order to get his net once more adjusted for another throw. In the mean time the other pursued him with all his speed to prevent this, and to despatch him<\/I>; hence he was called secutor<\/I>: the first<\/I> the netman<\/I>, the second<\/I> the pursuer<\/I>.<\/P> <\/p>\n In the disguise this fugitive might possibly escape from the net of Nebuchadnezzar, and of his captains. But, poor Zedekiah, dost thou not at last see that the Babylonians are employed of God, and that God will bring thee into his own and into Nebuchadnezzars net. <\/P> Will I spread upon him; <\/B>in allusion to those that take birds or fish in nets, they spread it to its full extent, so will God spread his net that it shall cover Zedekiah and his followers. <\/P> He shall be taken; <\/B>mentioned as the principal, though he was not taken alone, many were taken with him. <\/P> I will bring him; <\/B>the Chaldeans carried him, and God brought him to Babylon, so second causes co-work with the first. <\/P> To Babylon; <\/B>which was the metropolis of the kingdom. <\/P> The land of the Chaldeans; <\/B>that strange land where they were captives whom God sent before, and whither obstinate Jerusalemites must now go. <\/P> Yet shall he not see it; <\/B>neither the land nor the city, though he shall spend the rest of his days there, and there die, but the Babylonish tyrant will put out his eyes at Riblah, 2Ki 25:6<\/span>; Jer 39:5<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n 13. My net<\/B>the Chaldean army.He shall be inextricably entangled in it, as in the meshes of a net.It is God’s<\/I> net (Job 19:6<\/span>).Babylon was God’s instrument (Isa10:5<\/span>). Called “a net” (Hab1:14-16<\/span>). <\/P> bring him to Babylon . . . ;yet shall he not see it<\/B>because he should be deprived of sightbefore he arrived there (Jer52:11<\/span>).<\/P><\/p>\n My net also will I spread upon him<\/strong>,…. Meaning the Chaldean army, which the Lord raised up, and brought against him, and gave success unto:<\/p>\n and he shall be taken in my snare<\/strong>; as a bird is taken in the snare of the fowler; or a wild beast by the hunter. The Jews have a tradition, which is mentioned both by Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abendana on the place, that there was a cave which reached from Zedekiah’s house to the plains of Jericho, by the way of which he fled; and that God prepared a deer, which went upon the top of the cave; and the Chaldeans pursued it; and when it came to the mouth of the cave, Zedekiah was coming out, and they took him:<\/p>\n and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans<\/strong>; yet shall he not see it; his eyes being put out at Riblah, Jer 39:7<\/span>. The Prophet Jeremiah says that his eyes should behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, Jer 34:3<\/span>; and yet here Ezekiel says that he should not see the land of the Chaldeans. Josephus u observes, that Zedekiah thought these two prophecies contradicted each other, and therefore gave credit to neither; but they both proved true; he saw the king of Babylon at Riblah; but his eyes being there put out, he saw not Babylon, whither he was carried captive:<\/p>\n though he shall die there<\/strong>; as he did, Jer 52:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n u Joseph. Antiqu. l. 10. c. 7. sect. 2. and c. 8. sect. 2.<\/p>\n That was no slight slaughter, when Zedekiah at length, in his desperation, thought of flight, and thus descended into hidden trenches, as if seeking life in the tomb: thus was he reduced to extremities. But the Prophet now adds, that it would be useless, because notwithstanding this he should be taken by his enemies Besides, what God executed by means of the Chaldeans he properly transfers to himself. The Chaldeans laid their snares when advised of the king’s flight: they knew its direction, and hence they apprehended him. So God announces himself as the author: I, says he, will stretch out my net. This we know, that the Chaldeans did not leave their own country of their own accord, nor carry on the war in their own strength, nor take the king by their own counsel; but the whole affair was under the government of heaven. Men lent their aid, and seemed to carry’ on the work by their own labor; but unless God had provided for the event, all their endeavors had proved fruitless. Hence, as God had stirred up the Chaldeans to exact punishment from the king and the people, so he raised their minds to confidence, then he strengthened them to persist in the siege of the city, and afterwards opened their eyes, and sent persons to disclose the plans of the king, so that he might be seized in a cave, as it really happened. The whole of this was done by the secret providence of God. So diligently ought we to observe those places in which God shows that what seems to be the work of men is really his own. Even likeness does not want its weight; for we seem always to have some refuge in perplexity, and on whatever side we look around, some hope deceives us. But God announces that he has nets spread, by which we are surrounded on every side: hence when we seem to have a way of escape, God has hidden nets in which he encloses us. So that this place compares God to a hunter, and ourselves to wild beasts; for when a huntsman follows wild beasts, they seek for a way of escape and rush out there, but they are caught in nets: so also when we endeavor to elude God’s hands, we are entrapped and held by him: because when we wish to withdraw ourselves from his providence, we deserve that blindness which leads us to rush on our own destruction. <\/p>\n Hence I will spread my net for him, and he shall be taken in my snares, I will lead him away, says he, to Babylon The Prophet shows by degrees how formidably God’s vengeance should alight on Zedekiah and the whole people. It was already most miserable to be taken by the enemy and subjected to their lust and cruelty. If he had been slain, this would have been accomplished in a single moment, but God wished him to be drawn into exile; meanwhile he says that he should die at Babylon, without seeing the city, both of which were accomplished. Zedekiah then wasted away in exile, for he lay even to his death in filth and defilement. And although he was buried, as we saw in Jeremiah, yet this condition was most sorrowful — to fear through one’s whole lifetime some fresh wrath of an enemy. Then he was barbarously and inhumanly treated: his eyes were put out on the journey; and here it is said, he shall not see Babylon, and yet he shall arrive there and die there. Afterwards he saw his sons strangled in his sight: then his eyes were dug out — a spectacle more grievous than death. Now we may reflect on the kind of life a man must spend in exile, in prison, and in chains — since he was bound with chains, as the sacred narrative informs us — there to consume away by a slow death in a foul prison and in total darkness; yet all this happened to Zedekiah. We see then how God thunders against the Israelites, who thought themselves hardly treated in exile, since they might have remained safe at Jerusalem. <\/p>\n (13) Yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.<\/strong>The prophet does not explain how this could be; but Jeremiah (Jer. 52:11<\/span>) makes it plain by recording that Zedekiahs eyes were put out in Riblah, before he was carried to Babylon. Josephus has a curious story (Antiq. <\/em>x. 7, 2), that Zedekiah was inclined to believe the warnings of Jeremiah that he should be carried captive to Babylon; but when Ezekiel sent this prophecy to Jerusalem, saying that he should not see the land, he conceived the two prophecies to be contradictory, and so disbelieved them both. Zedekiahs death in Babylon is mentioned in Jer. 52:11<\/span>.<\/p>\n 13<\/strong>. <\/strong> My net also will I spread upon him <\/strong> 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 (Jer 39:4-7<\/span>; Hos 7:12<\/span>; Eze 17:20<\/span>; Eze 32:3<\/span>). <\/p>\n Yet shall he not see it <\/strong> This explicit prophecy, that his eyes should be put out, was literally fulfilled though Ezekiel himself does not record its fulfillment (2Ki 25:7<\/span>; Jer 39:7<\/span>; Jer 52:11<\/span>). “Ezekiel had no solicitude to make out the truth of his own predictions.” Cowles.<\/p>\n “My net also will I spread on him, and he will be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, to the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he will not see it, even though he will die there.”<\/p>\n The attempted escape will be frustrated, and it will be Yahweh’s doing. Like a hunter He will cast His net over them, and capture them in his snare (compare Hos 7:12<\/span>; Lam 1:13<\/span>). They will not be allowed to escape, for they must reap what they had sown. God’s sovereignty over what Nebuchadnezzar was doing is clearly revealed. It is Yahweh Himself Who will bring Zedekiah to Babylon.<\/p>\n ‘Yet he will not see it, even though he will die there.’ But though Zedekiah is brought to Babylon, where he will remain for the remainder of his life, he will not see it, for he will have been blinded (2Ki 25:7<\/span>).<\/p>\n Eze 12:13<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>My net also<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> “Though Zedekiah flatters himself with escaping the Chaldean army, yet he shall find himself fatally mistaken; for I will bring his enemies upon him, who shall encompass him, and stop his flight, as when a wild beast is entangled in a net.” See Jeremiah 37<\/span>; Jeremiah 38<\/span>; and Jer 52:10-11<\/span>. <\/p>\n Eze 12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.<\/p>\n Ver. 13. My net also will I spread upon him.<\/strong> ] Princes usually love hunting and fowling. Lo, the Chaldees shall hunt him and overcatch him. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And he shall be taken in my snare.<\/strong> ] Snares are set secretly, catch suddenly, hold certainly. A stronghold the Hebrew word here used doth also signify. a<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yet shall he not see it.<\/strong> ] For his eyes were put out at Riblah. 2Ki 25:7 And yet, behold, a greater blindness that befell him than this. Josephus b<\/em> testifieth that Zedekiah not understanding these words of Ezekiel, and thinking them to be contrary to Jeremiah’s words, he resolved to believe neither of them. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Jun. <\/p>\n b<\/em> Joseph. Ant., <\/em> lib. vi. x., cap. 10.<\/p>\n My net, &c.: i.e. the Chaldean army which overtook Zedekish. <\/p>\n not see it. The Figure of speech Amphibologia, or AEnigma (App-6), as in Jer 34:3. The explanation is given in 2Ki 25:7, and Jer 39:7; Jer 39:52, Jer 39:11. Zedekish was taken to Babylon, but he never saw it, though he died there, <\/p>\n My net: This was to intimate, that though he escaped out of the city, the Chaldeans should overtake him, and carry him to Babylon. Jeremiah had predicted that his “eyes should see the eyes of the king of Babylon,” and here Ezekiel foretold that he should not see Babylon, though he should die there; and Josephus says that he thought the two prophecies so inconsistent with each other, that he believed neither; yet both were exactly fulfilled, and the enigma of Ezekiel explained, when Zedekiah was brought to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah, where he had his eyes put out, and was then carried to Babylon, and there died. Eze 17:16, Eze 17:20, Eze 19:8, Eze 19:9, Eze 32:3, Job 19:6, Psa 11:6, Isa 24:17, Isa 24:18, Jer 50:24, Lam 1:13, Lam 3:47, Lam 4:19, Lam 4:20, Hos 7:12, Luk 21:35 <\/p>\n and I: 2Ki 25:5-7, Jer 34:3, Jer 39:7, Jer 52:8-11 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Deu 28:36 – bring thee 2Ki 25:7 – and put out Job 18:10 – snare Isa 51:20 – a wild Jer 32:4 – General Jer 37:17 – thou shalt Jer 38:18 – then Jer 52:11 – put out the eyes of Zedekiah Lam 2:6 – the king Lam 2:9 – her king Eze 21:26 – Remove<\/p>\n Eze 12:13. This net referred to the forces of Babylon which the Lord was using in the overthrow of Jerusalem and its acting king. The apparent difficulty in the closing clause of this verse will be made clear by 2 Kings 25 : G, 7; Jer 32:4.<\/p>\n 12:13 My net also will I spread upon {d} him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.<\/p>\n (d) When the king will think to escape by fleeing, I will take him into my net, as in Eze 32:3 .<\/p>\n Nevertheless the Lord would snare Zedekiah like a bird in a net and would bring him to Babylon. Ancient art pictured deities as hunting and snaring their enemies. [Note: See Pritchard, plate 298.] <\/span> Yet Zedekiah would not see the land of Babylon even though he would die there (cf. 2Ki 25:5; 2Ki 25:7; Jer 39:6-7; Jer 52:8; Jer 52:10-11).<\/p>\n Josephus wrote that Zedekiah heard about this prophecy by Ezekiel but did not believe it because it seemed to contradict Jeremiah’s prophecy about what would happen to him. [Note: Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 10:7:2.] <\/span> This apparent contradiction was the reason Zedekiah gave for rejecting both prophecies. Both prophecies proved true: the Chaldeans took Zedekiah to Babylon, but he never saw the country because Nebuchadnezzar blinded him at Riblah.<\/p>\n My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon [to] the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there. 13. 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