Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 21:3
The righteous — It is no unusual thing, that in publick calamities, those who are indeed righteous should be involved with others.
The righteous — It is no unusual thing, that in publick calamities, those who are indeed righteous should be involved with others.
Verse Ezekiel 21:3. _BEHOLD, I AM_ AGAINST _THEE_] Dismal news! When God is _against us_, who can be _for us_? _AND WILL DRAW FORTH MY SWORD_] War. _AND WILL CUT OFF FROM THEE_] The land of Judea....
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...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. DRAW FORTH MY SWORD, See note on Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 5:17, and Ezekiel 12:14. THE RIGHTEOUS, &c. Therefore...
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...
AND SAY TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL— The prophet addresses Jerusalem and Judaea, his face turned towards them, and speaks to them as if they were present. Instead of, _will cut off from thee,_ Houbigant rea...
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...
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 CU...
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...
THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED. — This explains _the green tree_ and _the dry_ of Ezekiel 20:47; and “all flesh” of Ezekiel 21:4, corresponds to “all faces” of the same. These expressions are meant to s...
_[Ezekiel 21:8]_ וְ אָמַרְתָּ֞ לְ אַדְמַ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל...
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...
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I [am] against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the (b) righteous and the wicked. (b) That...
_Just. But had not God declared the contrary, chap. xviii? The time was not yet arrived; or, he rescued the just from death, though he permitted them to experience the other common miseries. (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...
AND SAY TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL,.... The inhabitants of it, signified by the "forest of the south field", Ezekiel 20:47: THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE; and sad it is to have the Lord a...
_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._ Ver. 3. _Be...
_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...
and say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I am against thee, in stern opposition, AND WILL DRAW FORTH MY SWORD OUT OF HIS SHEATH, in sending war with bloodshed and devastation, AND W...
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...
Publish it to all the people of the land, if any will consider it; it is not the severe and morose conjecture of a disturbed and injured man, let them know God the Lord speaks it. Weigh this, I say it...
Ezekiel 21:3 say H559 (H8804) land H127 Israel H3478 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 draw H3318 ...
THE RIDDLE EXPLAINED. ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards Jerusalem, and drop your word towards the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel, and...
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...
_Behold, I am against thee._ A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT I. The prophet’s compellation, or title--“Son of man.” There are but two persons in Scripture which have eminently this name--the one is our Saviou...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:3 The RIGHTEOUS AND WICKED correspond to the “green” and “dry” trees of Ezekiel 20:47. Here God predicts a judgment that will come on t
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...
Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 32:42; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Exodus 15:9;...