Ezekiel 5 - Introduction
CHAPTER 5. THE FATE AWAITING JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER 5. THE FATE AWAITING JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS SHAVEN BEARD AND HEAD. “And you, son of man, you take a sharp sword. As a barber's razor you will take it to you. And you will cause it to pass over your head and on your beard. Then take for yourself balances to weigh and divide the hair. A third part you will burn with fir... [ Continue Reading ]
“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 out a fire to all the house of Israel.” Of the third part who escape death and were scattered some w... [ Continue Reading ]
JERUSALEM'S GUILT AND FUTURE JUDGMENT IS SPELLED OUT. ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statues more than... [ Continue Reading ]
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you are more turbulent than the nations which are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes nor have kept my ordinances, nor have done after the ordinances of the nations which are round about you, therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold I... [ Continue Reading ]
“Wherefore as I live”, says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you, nor shall my eye spare, and I will also have no pity.” A further indictment was that they had defiled the t... [ Continue Reading ]
“A third part of you will die with the pestilence, and they will be consumed with famine in the midst of you, and a third part will fall by the sword round about you, and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.” What the shaving of his head and beard have... [ Continue Reading ]
“Thus will my anger be accomplished, and I will satisfy my fury on them, and I will be comforted. And they will know that I, Yahweh have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury on them.” Outwardly all the results were natural results, and came about through rebellion against Nebuchadnez... [ Continue Reading ]
“Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations who are round about you, in the sight of all who pass by. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in... [ Continue Reading ]
“When I shall send on them the hurtful arrows of famine, which are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread, and I will send on you famine and evil beasts, and they will bereave you, and pestilence and blood will pass... [ Continue Reading ]