11:1-4
The Spirit moves Ezekiel again. The individuals named hear are not known. ESV has “princes of the people”, “leaders of the people” is a better translation as “princes” here has no royal connotations. God tells Ezekiel that these “are the men who have been plotting evil and giving wicked advice”. In Jeremiah we read that most people were opposing him, and the general advice was that Jerusalem would be safe. The translation of v3 is difficult. ESV has “the time not near to build houses” or “the time is near to build houses”, i.e. it could mean anything! The NIV “Haven’t our houses been recently rebuilt?” could mean that things implied everything was going to be OK. “We are the meat in it” does not mean what we might take it to mean, ie we are going to be killed. It is more likely that it is contrasting meat with vegetables. Ie they are seeing themselves as the cream of the crop. Whatever the details, the place is a mess, and Ezekiel is to prophesy against it.
11:5,6
The leaders expressed to be working for the benefit of the citizens of Jerusalem, but they had plenty of blood on their own hands.And their actions would lead to there being many more dead in the city.
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