Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Ezekiel 21:5
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.
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.
Verse Ezekiel 21:5. _IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE._] That is, till all the work that I have designed for it is done. Nor did it; for Nebuchadnezzar never rested till he had subdued all the lands from...
Ezekiel 21:1. A solemn message is given to the prophet: “Behold I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.” It was to b...
EZEKIEL 20:45 TO EZEKIEL 21:32. THE TERRIBLE SWORD OF NEBUCHADREZZAR. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory is followed by a poem this time a wild irregular dithyra...
IT SHALL NOT RETURN, &c.: i.e. until it has executed its mission....
Ezekiel 21:1-5. These verses, though still figurative, are plainer than the preceding, of which they furnish the explanation. The sword of the Lord is drawn finally from its sheath, to which it shall...
Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord The passage Ezekiel 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of Nebu...
I—HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD— The sword of the Lord was Nebuchadrezzar; who, after having executed the Lord's judgments upon his people, lived above twenty years. The meaning is, that this sword should...
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version an...
3, 4. THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED] corresponding to the green tree and the dry in the parable (Ezekiel 20:47). In spite of his strict theory of retribution in Ezekiel 18, Ezekiel recognised the fact...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 * This chapter describes how the king of Babylon and his...
IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE — _i.e.,_ until it has fully accomplished its purpose. Other judgments upon Israel had been arrested in mercy — the sword had been returned to the scabbard while its work...
_[Ezekiel 21:10]_ וְ יָֽדְעוּ֙ כָּל ־בָּשָׂ֔ר כִּ֚י...
THE SWORD UNSHEATHED Ezekiel 21:1 THE date at the beginning of chapter 20 introduces the fourth and last section of the prophecies delivered before the destruction of Jerusalem. It also divides the f...
The commission was then repeated in terms of explanation. Ezekiel was to set his face against Jerusalem, and prophesy against the land of Israel, declaring that Jehovah would draw His sword out of its...
_Back, (ver. 30.) without doing execution, Jeremias l. 9. (Calmet)_...
It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 20 AND 21. Chapter 20 begins a new prophecy, which, with its subdivisions, continues to the end of chapter 23. It will have been remarked that the general div...
THAT ALL FLESH MAY KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD OUT OF HIS SHEATH,.... The same with kindling a fire in Judea, Ezekiel 20:48: IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE; that is, into its sheath...
That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. Ver. 5. _Have drawn forth my sword._] And put it in commission; not to return till t...
_Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem_ Here God directs the prophet to declare in plain language, what he had ordered him to speak allegorically, from the 46th to the 48th verses of the foregoing...
that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn forth My sword out of his sheath, to accomplish this sweeping overthrow, this fearful catastrophe; IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE, it must perform it...
The Sword of the Lord....
1-17 Here is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all might know it was his decree against a wicked...
That they that smart and suffer may see and own God in their just sufferings, they that see and hear it may confess God's doings herein. IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE: in EZEKIEL 20:48 it is expressed...
Ezekiel 21:5 flesh H1320 know H3045 (H8804) LORD H3068 drawn H3318 (H8689) sword H2719 sheath H8593 return...
“Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore will my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. And all flesh shall know that...
CONTENTS: Parable of the sighing prophet, and of the sword of God. No king for Israel until Messiah comes to reign. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ezekiel, King of Babylon. CONCLUSION: When the sword is u...
Ezekiel 21:2. _Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places._ In the Latin bibles, this chapter begins at 21:45 of the preseding, which preserves unity in the su...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 21:2, EZEKIEL 21:3 The opening words, reproducing those of Ezekiel 20:46, indicate that the interpretation of that parable is coming. So the
CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21. THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD. THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed, should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel 21, the twenty-first chapter of Ezekiel. Now the prophets of God were often very colorful persons. And because people would not always listen to the Word of...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Samuel 3:12; Deuteronomy 29:24; Ezekiel 20:48;...
Shall not return — It shall not return into the scabbard 'till it hath done full execution....