Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 5:1
Take — Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard.
Take — Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard.
CHAPTER V _In this chapter the prophet shows, under the type of hair, the_ _judgments which God was about to execute on the inhabitants of_ _Jerusalem by famine, sword, and dispersion_, 14. _The t...
Translate it: take thee a sharp sword, for a barber’s razor thou shalt take it thee. Even if the action were literal, the use of an actual sword would best enforce the symbolic meaning. The “head” rep...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. KNIFE. sword, as in Ezekiel 5:12, and Ezekiel 11:8; Ezekiel 11:10 take thee. barber's rasor
_a sharp knife_ lit. sword. The term may suggest the devouring divine sword, ch. Ezekiel 21:8 _seq_. _take thee a barber's rasor_ With R.V., AS A BARBER'S RAZOR SHALT THOU TAKE IT UNTO THEE. Two weapo...
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...
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...
TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR— The balances were a symbol of the divine justice, as the razor was of the divine anger; the former signifying his equity, the _hairs_ the Jews, and the dividing of the hair...
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...
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's rasor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair. TAKE THEE...
5:1 knife; (f-10) Elsewhere 'sword.'...
A SHARP KNIFE.. A BARBER'S RAZOR] RV 'a sharp sword, as a barber's razor.' _For_ THEREOF] RY 'therefrom.' The clause thus introduced is obscure. The meaning seems to be that the punishment of Jerusale...
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...
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 ‘
TAKE THEE A SHARP KNIFE, TAKE THEE A BARBER’S RAZOR. — Rather, _take thee a sharp sword, as a barber’s razor shalt thou take it to thee._ The word _knife_ is the same as that used twice in Ezekiel 5:2...
וְ אַתָּ֨ה בֶן ־אָדָ֜ם קַח ־לְךָ֣ ׀ חֶ֣רֶב
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...
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] (a) to pass upon thy head and upon thy beard: then take to thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair]. (a)...
That. Hebrew, "the scissors of clippers." The same term is used for clipping sheep as for cutting hair. Shaving was not probably then in use. --- Beard, as in mourning or for ignominy, 2 Kings x. 4.,...
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...
CONTENTS The Prophet in this Chapter, is still carrying on his instruction by similitudes. Under the type of hair shaven from the head, and beard, is shown, how the Lord will bring under close punish...
By another vision God confirms what he had lately taught concerning the siege of Jerusalem. For he orders the Prophet to shave the hairs off his head and his beard, then to distribute them into three...
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,...
AND THOU, SON OF MAN, TAKE THEE A SHARP KNIFE,.... Or, "sword" m. The word signifies any sharp instrument, by which anything is cut off, or cut asunder; what is here meant is explained by the followin...
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause [it] to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the [hair]. Ver. 1....
_Take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor_ The latter expression explains the former; _and cause it to pass upon thy head_, &c. Hair being then accounted an ornament, and baldness a token o...
THE SIGN ITSELF...
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, a sword such as was used in war, TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR, the sword itself being used like the razor of a barber, AND CAUSE IT TO PASS UPON THINE HEAD...
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...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 5 Under the type of the prophet's hair, EZEKIEL 5:1, is showed God's judgment upon Jerusalem, EZEKIEL 5:5, by pestilence, by famine, by the sword, and by dispersion, EZEKIEL 5:12. It i...
Ezekiel 5:1 son H1121 man H120 take H3947 (H8798) sharp H2299 sword H2719 take H3947 (H8799) barbers...
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...
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...
Daniel 5:27; Ezekiel 44:20; Isaiah 7:20; Leviticus 21:5...