Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 5:9
Not done — Though the old world perished by water, and Sodom by fire, yet neither one or other was so lingering a death.
Not done — Though the old world perished by water, and Sodom by fire, yet neither one or other was so lingering a death.
Verse Ezekiel 5:9. _I WILL DO IN THEE THAT WHICH I HAVE NOT DONE_] The destruction of Jerusalem by _Nebuchadnezzar_ was one of the greatest calamities that ever fell on any nation or place _before_; a...
Compare Matthew 24:21. The calamities of the Babylonian were surpassed by the Roman siege, and these again were but a foreshadowing of still more terrible destruction at the last day....
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...
EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS. By the four preceding symbolical actions the doom has been made too terribly clear: the reason for it is now given. Jerusalem is the centre of the world, conspicuous alike...
Because she has surpassed the nations in evil, her chastisements shall be without example in severity. _Because ye multiplied_ R.V. _because ye are turbulent_. Both renderings assume an otherwise unkn...
Explanation of the four preceding symbols Jerusalem, set in the midst of the nations and favoured of God above them all, has even exceeded them in wickedness (Ezekiel 5:5). Therefore God's judgments...
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...
_that which I have not done_ This is no mere rhetorical threat. It is possible that the miseries of the siege and exile were no greater than those endured by other nations in those days, but the same...
THE LIKE— The national punishment of the Jews, comprehending what they suffered from Nebuchadrezzar, Titus, and Adrian, has been remarkably signal....
B. The First Threat 5:7-10 TRANSLATION (7) Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more tumultuous than the nations which are round about you in My statutes you have not walked, and My jud...
_AND I WILL DO IN THEE THAT WHICH I HAVE NOT DONE, AND WHEREUNTO I WILL NOT DO ANY MORE THE LIKE, BECAUSE OF ALL THINE ABOMINATIONS._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
WHEAT, etc.] a mixture of all sorts of grain, fine and coarse, symbolising the poor fare which would be used in Jerusalem during the siege....
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 ‘
THAT WHICH I HAVE NOT DONE, AND WHERE-UNTO I WILL NOT DO ANY MORE THE LIKE. — Our Lord uses similar language (Matthew 24:21) in foretelling the final destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. But all qu...
וְ עָשִׂ֣יתִי בָ֗ךְ אֵ֚ת אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא ־עָשִׂ֔
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...
_Like. The ruin of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans was terrible, (Calmet) but that by the Romans was more so. (St. Jerome) --- The reasons were different._...
How often the Lord complains of his people in the Old Testament, that in their sins, they were more stupid and senseless than the idolatrous nations around them. Never was it known, that heathens chan...
Now God subjoins, that their punishment should be so severe that no similar example could be found in the world — _I will do what I have not done, nor intended to do, _that is, I will avenge your cont...
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 I WILL DO IN THEE THAT WHICH I HAVE NOT DONE,.... In any other nation, or to any other people; not in the old world, when the flood was brought upon the world of the ungodly; not in Sodom and Gomo...
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ver. 9. _And I will do in thee that which I have not done._] None s...
_Therefore, because ye multiplied more than the nations_ Their multiplying, in the common sense of the word, was a blessing promised to them, and could not be alleged against them as a crime; therefor...
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, punishing in a degree heretofore unheard of, AND WHEREUNTO I WILL NOT DO ANY MORE THE LIKE, never repeating a like punishment upon men, BECAUSE OF ALL...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, wil...
Though the old world perished by water, and the judgment was greater in its extent, and Sodom was destroyed by fire, yet neither one or other was so lingering a death. These poor Jews were long dying,...
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‘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 th...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:8 EAT THEIR SONS. This gruesome prospect sometimes became a reality during siege warfare (see Lamentations 4:10). This was one of Go
_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...
Amos 3:2; Daniel 9:12; Lamentations 4:6; Lamentations 4:9; Matthew 24: