Ezekiel 21:1
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, DROP THY WORD TOWARD THE HOLY PLACES - the three parts of the temple: the courts, the holy place, and the holiest. If "synagogues" existed before the Babylonian captivity... [ Continue Reading ]
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. I ... WILL CUT OFF FROM THEE THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED - not contradictory of ; , and . Ezekiel here views the... [ Continue Reading ]
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: THEREFORE SHALL MY SWORD GO FORTH OUT OF HIS SHEATH AGAINST ALL FLESH FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH. The "sword " did not, lite... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT ALL FLESH MAY KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD OUT OF HIS SHEATH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. SIGH THEREFORE ... WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS - as one afflicted with pleurisy; or as a woman in labour-throes clasps her loins in pain, and heaves and sighs until the girdle of the l... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pas... [ Continue Reading ]
_AGAIN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: A SWORD, A SWORD - namely, of God (). The Chaldeans are His instrument.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. IT IS SHARPENED TO MAKE A SORE SLAUGHTER - literally, 'that killing it may kill.' IT IS FURBISHED THAT IT MAY GLITTER - literally, glitter a... [ Continue Reading ]
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. IT IS FURBISHED, TO GIVE IT INTO THE HAND OF THE SLAYER - the Babylonian king in this case; in general, all the instruments of God's wrath ().... [ Continue Reading ]
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh. TERRORS BY REASON OF THE SWORD SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE - rather, 'they (the princes of Israel) are deliver... [ Continue Reading ]
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD. BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL - rather, 'For there is a trial' being made; the sword of the Lord will subject all to the ordeal. AND WHAT IF THE SWORD CONTEMN EVEN THE ROD? - as he already foret... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER - (Numbers 24:10) indicative of the ind... [ Continue Reading ]
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. I HAVE SET THE POINT OF THE SWORD, [ 'ibchat (H19)] - 'the whirling glance of the sword' (Fairbairn). 'The naked (bared... [ Continue Reading ]
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set. Apostrophe to the sword. GO THEE ONE WAY OR OTHER - rather [ hit'achªdiy (H258)], 'Concentrate thyself;' 'Unite thy forces on the right hand' (Grotius). The sword is commanded to take the nearest... [ Continue Reading ]
I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. I WILL ALSO SMITE MINE HANDS TOGETHER. Yahweh Himself smites His hands together, doing what He had commanded Ezekiel to do (note, ), in token of His smiting Jerusalem; cf. the similar symbolical act... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME AGAIN, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. APPOINT THEE TWO WAYS. The king coming from Babylon is represented, in the graphic sty... [ Continue Reading ]
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. APPOINT A WAY, THAT THE SWORD MAY COME TO RABBATH OF THE AMMONITES - distinct from Rabbath in Judah (). Rabbath is put first, as it was from her that Jerusalem, the doomed city, had borrow... [ Continue Reading ]
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. FOR THE KING OF BABYLON STOOD AT THE PARTING - literally, 'mother of the way.' Since "head of the two ways" follow... [ Continue Reading ]
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort. AT HIS RIGHT HAND - rather, 'In his right hand was (is) the divinati... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS A FALSE DIVINATION IN THEIR SIGHT - unto the Jews, though credulous of divinations when in their favour,... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand. BECAUSE YE HAVE MADE YOUR INIQUITY... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE - as having desecrated by idolatry and perjury his office as the Lord's anointed. Havernick translates [ chaalaal (H2491)], as in Ezekiel 21:14, 'slain' - i:e., not liter... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. REMOVE THE DIADEM - [ mitsnepet (H4701)], rather, 'the mitre' of the holy priest (Exodus 28:4; Zechariah 3:5). His priestly emblem as representative o... [ Continue Reading ]
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. Literally, 'An overturning, overturning, overturning, will I make it.' The three-fold repetition denotes the awful certainty of the event; not as Rosenmuller explains, the ov... [ Continue Reading ]
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering: THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD CONCERNING THE AMMONITES. Lest A... [ Continue Reading ]
Whiles they see vanity unto thee, whiles they divine a lie unto thee, to bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end. WHILES THEY SEE VANITY UNTO THEE, WHILES THEY DIVINE A LIE ... TO BRING THEE UPON THE NECKS OF THEM... [ Continue Reading ]
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. SHALL I CAUSE IT TO RETURN INTO HIS SHEATH? - namely, without first destroying Ammon. Certainly not (Jeremiah 47:6). Others, as margin, less suitably read it imperativ... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy. I WILL BLOW AGAINST THEE IN THE FIRE OF MY WRATH - rather, 'I will blow upon thee with the fire,' etc. Image from smelting meta... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it. THY BLOOD SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND - i:e., shall flow in the midst of the land. THOU SHALT BE NO MORE REMEMBERED - be consigned, as a natio... [ Continue Reading ]