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    Ezekiel's actions of mourning for his wife were meant to symbolize the coming destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians. God tells Ezekiel to explain to the Israelites that He will allow the temple, which they took great pride in, to be profaned and destroyed by invaders. Many of their sons and daughters left in Judah will die by the sword or from famine and plague. The Israelites will be so overcome with grief over these calamities caused by their iniquities that they will be unable to outwardly mourn, instead silently wasting away in sorrow. Ezekiel's symbolic actions were meant as a sign to the Israelites of what was to come so that when it occurred, they would recognize it

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    Ezekiel's actions of mourning for his wife were meant to symbolize the coming destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians. God tells Ezekiel to explain to the Israelites that He will allow the temple, which they took great pride in, to be profaned and destroyed by invaders. Many of their sons and daughters left in Judah will die by the sword or from famine and plague. The Israelites will be so overcome with grief over these calamities caused by their iniquities that they will be unable to outwardly mourn, instead silently wasting away in sorrow. Ezekiel's symbolic actions were meant as a sign to the Israelites of what was to come so that when it occurred, they would recognize it

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    Ezekiel's actions of mourning for his wife were meant to symbolize the coming destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians. God tells Ezekiel to explain to the Israelites that He will allow the temple, which they took great pride in, to be profaned and destroyed by invaders. Many of their sons and daughters left in Judah will die by the sword or from famine and plague. The Israelites will be so overcome with grief over these calamities caused by their iniquities that they will be unable to outwardly mourn, instead silently wasting away in sorrow. Ezekiel's symbolic actions were meant as a sign to the Israelites of what was to come so that when it occurred, they would recognize it

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    BENSON COMMENTARY

    Ezekiel 24:19-24. Wilt thou not tell us what these things are — That is, what is the meaning of thy
    unusual actions. They seem to make this inquiry by way of derision and contempt. Speak unto the
    house of Israel — Now he is commissioned to declare the meaning of what he did. Thus saith the
    Lord, Behold, I will profane my sanctuary — I will deliver my temple into the hands of the heathen,
    and they shall profane and destroy it: even that temple wherein you placed your glory, and thought
    your greatest protection. The desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth — As much your
    desire, as my wife was mine; most dear to you, the destruction of which will affect you with a most
    poignant grief. Your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword — Whom
    you left behind you when you were made captives; for this was addressed to those who were at
    this time captives in Babylonia, having been carried thither with Jehoiachin. Or the meaning may
    be, Your sons, &c., who are left to you, from the famine and the pestilence. Ye shall not mourn nor
    weep —

    These terrible judgments shall strike you with astonishment, and produce in you such distress as is
    too great to be expressed by words or actions; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, &c. — You
    shall be absorbed in silent sorrow, and shall waste away by lingering grief, and secret lamentation
    over each other’s calamities, as the punishment of your iniquities, which have made your land, city,
    temple, and families desolate, and yourselves miserable. Thus Ezekiel is a sign unto you — His
    actions foreshow you what your conditions shall be. The sacred writers, in several places, speak of
    themselves in the third person. And when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord —
    Comparing the prediction with the event will convince the most obstinate that the immediate hand
    of God is in the judgments which are come upon you.

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