Andrey Tikhomirov - The Books of the Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel. Scientific line-by-line explanation of the Bible

20 And I will cast my net upon him, and he will be caught in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, and there I will sue him for his treachery against me. (4 Kings, chapter 25, «5 And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army fled from him.» Arrest of the tsar. «6 And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and judged him, «The judgment of Zedekiah. «7 And the sons of Zedekiah were slaughtered before his eyes, but [himself] Zedekiah blinded his eyes and bound him with fetters, and took him to Babylon.» The «princes of the blood» were killed, the king himself was blinded and taken to Babylon in chains).

21 But all his fugitives from all his regiments will fall by the sword, and the rest will be scattered to all winds; and you will know that I, the LORD, have said this. (And all, they say, because they stopped honoring the «right» god).

22 Thus saith the LORD God: And I will take from the top of a tall cedar, and plant it; from its upper shoots I will tear off a tender branch, and plant it on a high and majestic mountain. (Analogy with the eagle and cedar from Lebanon).

23 I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel, and it will put forth branches, and bring forth fruit, and it will become a majestic cedar, and all kinds of birds will dwell under it, all kinds of birds will dwell in the shade of its branches. (Analogy with the eagle and cedar from Lebanon).

24 And all the trees of the field will know that I, the LORD, am lowering a tall tree, raising a low tree, drying up a green tree, and making a dry tree flourish: I, the LORD, have said, and I will do it. (Analogy with the eagle and cedar from Lebanon).

Chapter 18

1 And the word of the LORD came to me: (Hypnotist’s voice).

2 Why do you use this proverb in the land of Israel, saying, «The fathers ate sour grapes, but the children’s teeth are set on edge»? (Using a quote from Jeremiah: 31:29 In those days, it will no longer be said: «the fathers ate sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge»; a happy life for the people as a whole in the indefinite distant future was little consolation for an individual Jew, a contemporary of Ezekiel).

3 I Live! Says the Lord God, – they will not speak this proverb in Israel. (The Jewish priesthood does not benefit from this proverb, since it rejects «sinful» Jews, since, they say, they bear the constant «seal of sin»).

4 For behold, all souls are mine: both the soul of the father and the soul of the son are Mine: the soul that sins will die. (Everything, they say, depends on Yahweh).

5 If anyone is righteous and does justice and righteousness, (the righteous who observe all the ordinances of the priesthood).

6 He does not eat on the mountains of sacrifice, and does not turn his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, and does not approach his wife during the purification of her uncleanness (the righteous who observe all the ordinances of the priesthood).

7 he oppresses no one, returns his pledge to the debtor, does not commit embezzlement, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing, (The righteous who observe all the ordinances of the priesthood).

8 he does not give up and does not take interest, he keeps his hand from unrighteousness, he makes a right judgment to man with man, (The righteous who observe all the ordinances of the priesthood).

9 He acts according to my commandments and keeps my ordinances sincerely: then he is a righteous man, he will surely live, says the Lord God. (The righteous who keep all the ordinances of the priesthood are alive!).

10 But if a robber son is born to him, shedding blood, and doing any of these things, (Definition of iniquity).

11 Which he himself did not do at all, and eats sacrificial food on the mountains, and defiles his neighbor’s wife, (Definition of iniquity).

12 He oppresses the poor and the needy, forcibly takes away, does not return the pledge, and turns his eyes to idols, does an abomination (Definition of iniquity).

13 He gives in increase, and takes in excess; then will he live? [No], he won’t be alive. Whoever does all such abominations will surely die, his blood will be on him. (The wrongdoers will be put to death).

14 But if a son is born to someone who, seeing all the sins of his father, which he does, sees and does not do like them: (Definition of the righteous).

15 He does not eat on the mountains of sacrifice, does not turn his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, (Definition of the righteous).

16 and he does not oppress a man, does not take a pledge, and does not forcibly take away, he gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothes, (Definition of the righteous).

17 He withholds his hand from [offending] the poor, he does not take any increase or interest, he fulfills my commands and acts according to my commandments, then this one will not die for the iniquity of his father; he will live. (The righteous one remains alive!).

18 But his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did evil among his people, behold, he will die for his iniquity. (The wrongdoers will be put to death).

19 You say, «Why does the son not bear the guilt of his father?» Because the son acts lawfully and justly, keeps all my statutes and fulfills them; he will live. (The righteous one remains alive!).

20 The soul that sins, it will die; the son will not bear the guilt of the father, and the father will not bear the guilt of the son, the righteousness of the righteous remains with him, and the iniquity of the lawless remains with him. (To the wrongdoer – death, to the righteous – life!).

21 And the wicked, if he turns from all his sins, which he has done, and keeps all my statutes, and acts lawfully and justly, he will live, he will not die. (The wrongdoer can correct himself, then he will be alive).

22 All his transgressions that he has done will not be remembered to him; in his righteousness that he will do, he will live. (The wrongdoer can correct himself, then he will be alive).

23 Do I want the death of the wrongdoer? Says the Lord God. Is it not that he should turn from his ways and be alive? (It is advantageous for manipulative priests not to kill the sinner, but to force him again, with the help of religious tricks, to work for them).

24 And the righteous man, if he turns away from his righteousness and acts unrighteously, will do all the abominations that the wrongdoer does, will he live? all his good deeds, which he did, will not be remembered; for his iniquity, which he does, and for his sins, in which he has sinned, he will die. (Ezekiel introduced a substantially new word in defense of Yahweh. God does not want the sinner to die, he wants him to repent and live, that is, to feed the priests-schemers).

25 But you say, «The way of the LORD is wrong!» Listen, House of Israel! Is my path wrong? aren’t your ways wrong? (A dispute between Jewish priests and ordinary Israelis).

26 If a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and does iniquity and dies for it, then he dies for his iniquity that he has done. (Iniquity is a deviation from the statutes of Moses, which is unprofitable for the Jewish priesthood).

27 And the wicked, if he turns from his iniquity, which he has done, and does justice and righteousness, he will restore his soul to life. (The main thing for the Jewish priesthood is to inspire the «chosen ones» that, they say, all their sins are from the fact that they stopped feeding Yahweh, in fact, hiding behind the name of God, the Jewish priesthood sought to establish its theocratic power over the Jews).

28 For he has seen and turned from all his transgressions that he has done; he will live, he will not die. (This is beneficial to the Jewish priesthood, the wrongdoer became a lawyer – he began to feed the scheming priests again).