The elders went to Ezekiel to inquire of God. I haven’t looked it up, but I feel like “and they went to prophet to inquire” is something that is said when the bad things start happening, and the Faithlife Study Bible agrees that God “allowed them to inquire of him primarily to give them a …
So Babylon faces judgment for sins against Judah. On the surface, this doesn’t seem entirely right, does it? God uses Babylon to punish Judah, and then he turns around and punishes Babylon for how they treated Judah. Except, God doesn’t make Babylon do anything. I think a far better way to say it would be: …
It breaks my heart. I think it’s supposed to. David is shown over and over to be a good, just man, and here he… he just fails. Hard. It’s been pointed out that the little verse at the beginning may be significant: at the time when kings went to war, David stayed home. In the …