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Ezekiel 7:5
Thus saith the Lord God, An evil, an only evil, behold, is come, a peculiar calamity such as had never been heard of before, unparalleled in the history of the world.
Thus saith the Lord God, An evil, an only evil, behold, is come, a peculiar calamity such as had never been heard of before, unparalleled in the history of the world.
Verse Ezekiel 7:5. _AN EVIL, AN ONLY EVIL_] The great, the sovereign, the last exterminating evil, is come: the sword, the pestilence, the famine, and the captivity. Many MSS. read אחר _achar, after_....
AN ONLY EVIL - An evil singular and remarkable above all others....
Ezekiel 7:1. This chapter closes the first great message of Ezekiel. This great judgment message is written in beautiful language, which, in the Authorized Version, is marred by numerous incorrect ren...
EZEKIEL 7. THE END IS NIGH. Ezekiel 7:1. The visions of doom, so vividly described in the three preceding Chapter s, reach their climax in this chapter, charged with emotion and palpitating with the...
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...
_an only evil_ Lit. _one evil_, scarcely a "unique" evil, to which there is nothing like, but an evil which is "one" and final, 1 Samuel 26:8; Haggai 2:6, "Yet once, it is a little while, and I will s...
The dirge takes a fresh turn, announcing in nearly the same words that the end is come upon the inhabitants of the land...
DISCOURSE: 1097 APPROACHING END OF GOD’S FORBEARANCE Ezekiel 7:5. Thus saith the Lord God: An evil, an only evil, behold, income. An end income; the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is co...
AN EVIL, AN ONLY EVIL, &C.— _Behold, calamity shall come after calamity._ Houbigant....
III. CHAOS AND CALAMITY 7:1-27 Chapter 7 is a sermon in the form of a lamentation. It is characterized by frequent repetitions designed to underscore the certainty and severity of the coming calamity....
Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come. AN EVIL, AN ONLY EVIL, BEHOLD, IS COME. A special calamity, such as was never before, unparalleled. The abruptness of the style, an...
THE DESOLATION OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL This is a final message of doom upon the whole land (Ezekiel 7:2). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close at hand...
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 7 THE *DISASTERS WILL HAPPEN SOON – EZEKIEL 7:1-13 v1...
AN ONLY EVIL. — That is, an evil so all-embracing as to be complete in itself, and need no repetition. Compare the same thought in Nahum 1:9, “affliction shall not rise up the second time.” Some MSS.,...
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה רָעָ֛ה אַחַ֥ת ר
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...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on, e...
_One. A second shall not be necessary, Nahum i. 9. (Calmet)_...
The same alarm is here given under another figure, to rouse Israel. The evil come, and the morning arrived, when sentence is to be carried into execution: these are strong intimations to work upon the...
If we read אחת _, acheth, _or אחר, _acher, _the sense seems to me the same, _an evil, another evil is come: _that is, one evil is come from another, or one evil is come and an evil: that is, when one...
Finally (chap. 7), the whole land of Israel is under the sentence of God, "the four corners of the land." Those who escape the general judgment mourn alone upon the mountains, having forsaken all in d...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Here should be a stop, a colon, requiring attention to what follows, it being something awful and terrible: AN EVIL, AN ONLY EVIL, BEHOLD, IT COMETH; meaning the destruct...
_Thus saith the Lord, An evil, an only evil_ A sore affliction, a singular and uncommon one. _An end is come_ A destruction, which shall be fatal to a great part of those that go into captivity, as we...
1-15 The abruptness of this prophecy, and the many repetitions, show that the prophet was deeply affected by the prospect of these calamities. Such will the destruction of sinners be; for none can av...
An evil and sore affliction, one misery enough to ruin the whole, so that there will be no need of another. Or, as the Chaldee paraphrase, one evil after another; and this bespeaks the extreme sadness...
Ezekiel 7:5 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 disaster H7451 singular H259 disaster H7451 come H935 ...
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “An evil, an only evil, behold it comes. An end is come, the end is come, it awakes against you, behold it comes. Your doom is come to you, O inhabitant of the land, the ti...
CONTENTS: Miserable end of Judah because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: The ruin of sinners comes slowly but surely, but when it comes, it will be total. In the heaviest judgments God...
Ezekiel 7:2. _An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land._ The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they sh...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been already f...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the same group...
CHAPTER 7. LAMENTATION OVER THE GUILT AND FALL OF ISRAEL. THIS chapter does not contain anything properly new. It simply describes the mournful feelings and reflections which the preceding revelation...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel (Ezekiel 7:1-2); Now, the other was to the mountains, now to the land. the...
2 Kings 21:12; 2 Kings 21:13; Amos 3:2; Daniel 9:12; Ezekiel 5:9;...
An evil — An evil and sore affliction, a singular, uncommon one....