Bible Strands
Ezekiel 11:13
Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel addresses the exiled community in Babylon while delivering a vision of judgment against Jerusalem’s corrupt leadership. The moment occurs mid-prophecy when the condemned council member Pelatiah son of Benaiah dies.
The words — The Hebrew מֵ֑ת (Met) literally means “he died,” recording the sudden termination of Pelatiah. The phrase וָ/אֶפֹּ֨ל עַל־ (va./'e.Pol 'al-) translates to “and I fell on,” describing Ezekiel’s prostrate posture of grief.
The thread — This sequence of prophetic declaration followed by immediate death parallels Ezekiel 9:8 and finds a structural echo in Acts 5:5. The prophet’s intercessory question also reappears in the broader biblical tension between divine judgment and the preservation of Israel’s remnant.
Why it lands — The text establishes that God’s pronouncements execute independently of human timing or prophetic intervention. It requires the reader to accept that the survival of Israel depends solely on divine sovereignty rather than human mediation or emotional appeal.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 11:1 Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the gate of the house of the LORD that faces east. And there at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, who were leaders of the people.
- Ezekiel 9:8 While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
- Acts 5:5 On hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. And great fear came over all who heard what had happened.
- Numbers 14:35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
- Deuteronomy 7:4 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
- Deuteronomy 9:18 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
- Joshua 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.
- 1 Kings 13:4 Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
- 1 Chronicles 21:16 When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
- Psalms 106:23 So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.