Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 24:25

25 Also thou Son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters;

The question is to be resolved affirmatively, it shall be.

In the day of the taking the City of Ierusalem.

Though Nebuchadnezzar was the means, or instrument God did act by him, who did God's work more than his own.

The Kingdom dissolved, the King taken, City sack't, the Temple burnt, which is by the following characters described, as the only thing they valued. Though those particulars may be applyed to Sons, and Daughters in the close of the verse: However, it amounts to this in that Day, wherein all their publick and private joys and hopes shall be destroyed in the destruction of the Kingdom, and their Children, one that escapeth shall bring the News to the Prophet.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 span] soul.