Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 5:3
Take — Of the last third. Bind — As men tied up in the skirt of their garment what they would not lose: to signify the small remnant.
Take — Of the last third. Bind — As men tied up in the skirt of their garment what they would not lose: to signify the small remnant.
Verse Ezekiel 5:3. 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...
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...
_few in number_ Or, "by number," accurately numbering them. (Isaiah 40:26.) Of those dispersed a few shall meantime be preserved....
TAKE—A FEW—AND BIND, &C.— Hereby is prefigured the remnant of the Jews who should be left in the land under Gedaliah; and in the next verse the destruction which should come upon _them_ also. See Jere...
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....
PAN] RM 'flat plate,' such as was used for baking (Leviticus 6:21; Leviticus 7:9). This may be taken as a symbol either of the stubbornness of the defence or of the rigour of the siege. Or it may repr...
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 ‘
A FEW IN NUMBER, AND BIND THEM IN THY SKIRTS. — A small remnant of the people was still left in the land after the great captivity (2 Kings 25:22); but even of these some were to perish by violence (“...
וְ לָקַחְתָּ֥ מִ שָּׁ֖ם מְעַ֣ט בְּ מִסְפָּ֑ר
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...
Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy (c) skirts. (c) Meaning, that a very few would be left, which the Lord would preserve among all these storms, but not without troubl...
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...
It is now added: _Thou shalt take then a small number, and bind them, _(that is, that number, but the number is changed,) viz., _those hairs of which the number is small in the skirts of thy clothing...
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,...
THOU SHALL ALSO TAKE THEREOF A FEW IN NUMBER,.... These are they that were left in the land of Judea by Nebuzaradan, for vinedressers and husbandmen, and such as returned out of Egypt into the land of...
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. Ver. 3. _Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number._] A remnant is still reserved, "that the Lord God may dwell among men...
_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...
Thou shalt also take thereof, of the last third of the mass of hair, A FEW IN NUMBER AND BIND THEM IN THY SKIRTS, thus preserving a few in the midst of the general calamity....
THE SIGN ITSELF...
SKIRTS: _ Heb._ wings...
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...
THEREOF, i.e. of the last third which were to be dispersed. A FEW, or small quantity. IN NUMBER; or, by number, as THEM IN THY SKIRTS; as men tie up in a handkerchief, or in the skirt of their garment...
Ezekiel 5:3 take H3947 (H8804) small H4592 number H4557 bind H6696 (H8804) edge H3671 a few -...
“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...
1 Peter 4:18; 2 Kings 25:12; Jeremiah 39:10; Jeremiah 40:6; J