And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
Ezekiel 6:10 stands within the opening twenty chapters of Ezekiel, where Ezekiel served as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia. The visions in that portion of the book unveil God's overruling providence and His rule over the nations.
The declaration means that God's word that He would bring calamity upon His people was not spoken emptily, and its accomplishment brings them to know that He is the LORD. The evidence of that knowing is the slain lying upon every high hill together with the destruction of their high places. This found fulfillment in the Roman overthrow of Judea completed at Masada, when the high and fenced walls in which they trusted came down and nine hundred and sixty lay slain upon that high fortress rock, demonstrating God's anger against them for their manifold sins and that He had given them over to destruction.
Ezekiel 6:10 stands within the opening twenty chapters of Ezekiel, where Ezekiel served as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia. The visions in that portion of the book unveil God's overruling providence and His rule over the nations.
The declaration means that God's word that He would bring calamity upon His people was not spoken emptily, and its accomplishment brings them to know that He is the LORD. The evidence of that knowing is the slain lying upon every high hill together with the destruction of their high places. This found fulfillment in the Roman overthrow of Judea completed at Masada, when the high and fenced walls in which they trusted came down and nine hundred and sixty lay slain upon that high fortress rock, demonstrating God's anger against them for their manifold sins and that He had given them over to destruction.