George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 5:4
Out of it. Some rose up against Godolias, Jeremias xl., &c. (Calmet) --- The divisions of the Jews brought on the persecution of Epiphanes, (Sanctius) and introduced Pompey. (St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Out of it. Some rose up against Godolias, Jeremias xl., &c. (Calmet) --- The divisions of the Jews brought on the persecution of Epiphanes, (Sanctius) and introduced Pompey. (St. Jerome) (Haydock)
Verse Ezekiel 5:4. Ezekiel 5:1....
Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fire....
Ezekiel 5:1. The sharp knife is the symbol of the king of Babylon. (See Isaiah 7:20 .) He was God's instrument in the execution of His wrath; the people are represented by the hair. The third part of...
(D) THE FATE OF THE BESIEGED. Yet the last symbol is perhaps the most terrible of all; it suggests the all but irretrievable completeness of the destruction. Ezekiel is commanded to take a sharp sword...
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. As in Ezekiel 4:3....
Yet of those preserved some shall be cast into the fire and consumed. _thereof shall a fire_ THEREFROM, i.e. from that remnant which is subjected to new consumption in the fire. The "fire" that goes o...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
Ezekiel 5:1-4. Symbol shewing the fate of the population during the siege and after it, and their dispersion among the nations The prophet is commanded to take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's...
IV. PARABLE OF THE NATION'S FATE 5:1-4 TRANSLATION (1) And as for you, son of man, take to yourself a sharp sword, for a barber's razor, take it, and cause it to pass over your head and your beard, a...
_THOU SHALT ALSO TAKE THEREOF A FEW IN NUMBER, AND BIND THEM IN THY SKIRTS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
5:4 it (b-24) i.e. still from the third part last mentioned. see Zechariah 13:8 ,Zechariah 13:9 ....
SYMBOLIC ACTIONS REPRESENTING JERUSALEM'S SIEGE AND CAPTIVITY Ezekiel is commanded to perform four remarkable actions setting forth the coming siege withits hardships, and the approaching captivity wi...
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL] used here and in Ezekiel 4:5 in the limited sense of the northern kingdom of the Ten Tribes....
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 5 EZEKIEL CUTS AND DIVIDES HIS HAIR – EZEKIEL 5:1-4 V1 ‘
וּ מֵהֶם֙ עֹ֣וד תִּקָּ֔ח וְ הִשְׁלַכְתָּ֤ אֹו
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
In this chapter we have the description of the last of the four signs. The prophet was commanded to take a sword, sharpened as a barber's razor, and therewith to cut off his hair and his beard. The ha...
Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; (d) from which a fire shall come forth into all the house of Israel. (d) Out of the fire which you kindle...
The type is very expressive, and full to the purpose. And if we consider the judgment here spoken of spiritually, (and no doubt it was so intended), the head and the hair, represent Christ and his Chu...
We just saw that there were many reprobate in that small number. Hence, therefore, it is easily gathered how desperate was the impiety of the whole people. _After this, he _says, _take: _this adverb i...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
THEN TAKE OF THEM AGAIN,.... Of that small number preserved: AND CAST THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE, AND BURN THEM IN THE FIRE: this was fulfilled in Gedaliah and the Jews that were with him, over...
Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; [for] thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. Ver. 4. _Then take of them again, and...
_Thou shall burn a third part in the midst of the city_ In the midst of that portraiture of the city, which the prophet was commanded to make, chap. Ezekiel 4:1. This signified the destruction of the...
Then take of them again, of the few thus saved, AND CAST THEM INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE AND BURN THEM IN THE FIRE, the fire being considered a purifying agent; FOR THEREOF SHALL A FIRE COME FORTH INT...
THE SIGN ITSELF...
1-4 The prophet must shave off the hair of his head and beard, which signifies God's utter rejecting and abandoning that people. One part must be burned in the midst of the city, denoting the multitu...
THEN TAKE OF THEM AGAIN; another division make of that little number, the preserved remnant. Throw some of them into the fire; they are not all to be saved who are delivered at the end of the siege. B...
Ezekiel 5:4 again H3947 (H8799) throw H7993 (H8689) midst H8432 fire H784 burn H8313 (H8804) fire...
“And you will take from there a few in number, and bind them in your robes, and of these again you will take and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there will come o...
CONTENTS: Sign of the sharp knife. Famine, pestilence and the sword impending. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: When nations (or persons) are made great, it is with design that they may do good...
Ezekiel 5:1. _Son of man, take thee a sharp knife a barber's razor._ Clip thy hair, and shave thy beard. Then divide and subdivide the hair into twenty four parts, and take eight parts, precisely the...
_Take thee a sharp knife._ GOD’S JUDGMENTS UPON THE WICKED 1. Wicked men are of little worth; take a whole city of them, they are of no more account with God than a little hair of the head or beard....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:1 RAZOR. Priests were not to shave off their hair (Ezekiel 44:20; see also...
_The last methods of punishment symbolised and interpreted_ (chap. Ezekiel 5:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The requirements made of Ezekiel still proceed in his house. Already he has been a sign that Jerusalem...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 5:1 TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The former had ma...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Now the fourth thing that he uses as an illustration. Take a sharp knife, sharpen it like a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard (Ezekiel 5:1). Shave your head and...
2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 44:30; Jeremiah 48:45;...
Of them — Out of that little remnant. In the fire — For their sin against God, their discontents at their state, and conspiracies against their governor, another fire shall break out which shall devou...