Ezekiel 10

Ezekiel 10:2

Jonadab - Jonadab of whom we read, 2 Kings 10:15, was the father, that is the progenitor of the Rechabites, at three hundred years distance.

Ezekiel 10:3

That ye may live - Jonadab cautions his sons by a thrifty, sober, laborious life, to which they had been bred, in keeping flocks, to avoid any thing which might expose them to the envy or hatred of the people amongst whom they were come to sojourn.

Ezekiel 10:6

Tents - Moveable habitations, which they could with little labour remove to feed their flocks.

Ezekiel 10:15

For ever - For ever here signifies the ever of the Jewish state, or church.

Ezekiel 10:17

For ever - For ever here signifies the ever of the Jewish state, or church.

Ezekiel 10:18

A roll - Parchments, which anciently were their books. All the words - All the revelations he had from God for twenty - two years last past. God would have them recorded, that there might be a memorial of them, that so the truth of them might appear, when God should bring them to pass; the time of which now drew near.

Ezekiel 10:22

Upon the fasting day - It was undoubtedly, because of the concourse of people which the prophet knew would that day be in the temple, that he chose that day, when some would be present from all parts of Judah.