The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 6:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

He that is far off, etc. The three forms of judgment named in Ezekiel 6:11 have each their special victims. Pestilence comes chiefly on those who are outside the city, exposed to the weather changes and the taint of unburied corpses (Ezekiel 6:5); the sword of the Chaldeans on those who venture on a sally, or try to escape from the city; famine presses heaviest on those who are besieged within it.

None can escape the judgment. The word besieged is the same as in Isaiah 1:8; but it may have the sense, as in Isaiah 49:6, of "kept," or "preserved," for the worst evil of the three.

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