The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 24:18

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

So I spake unto the people in the morning, etc. In yet another way the calling of the prophet superseded the natural impulses of the man. He knew that his wife's hours were numbered, yet the day was spent, not in ministering at her deathbed, but in one last effort to impress the teachings of the time upon the seared consciences and hardened hearts of his countrymen and neighbors.

I cannot help referring to the poem 'Ezekiel,' by B.M published in 1871, as expressing the meaning of the history better than any commentary.

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