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Ezekiel 21:14-17

EZEKIEL—NOTE ON Ezekiel 21:14, Ezekiel 21:17 As in Ezekiel 6:11, to clap your hands communicates nervous anxiety, perhaps in anticipation of the approaching judgment.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 21:14. _LET THE SWORD BE DOUBLED THE THIRD TIME_] The sword has been _doubled_, and it shall come the _third time_. Nebuchadnezzar came against Judea THRICE. 1. Against _Jehoiakim_. 2....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism. Ez...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER, &c.. sign of disappointment or grief in men. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 24:10)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The destroying sword of the Lord. The violent agitation of the prophet at the thought of the coming destruction finds expression in a wild and irregular ode upon the sword of the Lord. The general sen...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _doubled the third time_ The reading must mean: let the sword be doubled, tripled! lit. unto a third (sword), i.e. till it be three-fold. Of course there were not to be three swords or even two; what...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND LET THE SWORD BE DOUBLED— _Make the sword double, make threefold the sword of the slayers: it is the sword, the sword of the great slaughter, which shall turn them into fear._ Houbigant. Kennicott...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Song of the Sword 21:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (9) Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also poli...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which enter...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    21:14 privily. (e-42) Or 'is a terror unto them.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SMITE, etc.] another gesture of excited SYMPATHY. DOUBLED THE THIRD TIME] rather, 'doubled and trebled' in its destructive power. SLAIN] RV 'deadly wounded.' THE GREAT _men that are_ SLAIN] RV 'the g...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER. — A gesture of strong emotion (see Ezekiel 21:17; Ezekiel 22:13, and comp. Note on Ezekiel 6:11; Numbers 24:10).

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (8-17) This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8 corresponding to 2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14 to Ezekiel 21:6. In several of its clauses modern criticism has been able to improve the t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Ezekiel 21:19]_ וְ אַתָּ֣ה בֶן ־אָדָ֔ם הִנָּבֵ֕א...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite (m) [thy] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, whic...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Tripled. Let the war be very bloody. Nabuchodonosor often invaded Judea. (Calmet) --- He raised the siege, but returned. (Vatable)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This seems to be another sermon to the same amount as the former. The Lord directs His servant to continue his alarming message, and again and again to cry concerning the sword of the Lord's slaughter...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU, THEREFORE, SON OF MAN, PROPHESY, AND SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER,.... As being in the greatest agony for what is coming upon thy people: or "strike hand to hand" y; clap them together, as encoura...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 21:14 ; EZEKIEL 21:17. _Prophesy, and smite thy hands together_ In token of amazement and sorrow. _And let the sword be doubled the third time_ Bishop Newcome reads, _Bring the sword twice; ye...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy and smite thine hands together, in extreme agitation, AND LET THE SWORD BE DOUBLED, THE THIRD TIME, THE SWORD OF THE SLAIN, so that its sharpness and strength will...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Sword of the Lord....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HANDS TOGETHER: _ Heb._ hand to hand...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER; either in token of amazement and sorrow, or else to signify what pleasure it should be to see justice executed on obstinate rebels; or rather, as EZEKIEL 21:17, clap thy ha...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 21:14 son H1121 man H120 prophesy H5012 (H8734) strike H5221 hands H3709 H3709 together H5221 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A VIVID PICTURE OF THE SEVERITY OF THE JUDGMENT. “You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time (or ‘be doubled, yes tripled'), the sw...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES. (Ezekiel 21:8.) The sword is sharpened for slaying. As they are a people who refuse to understand, the judgment is announced in the plainest terms. Ezekiel 21:9. “AND ALSO FURBISHED....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And smite — In token of amazement and sorrow. Of the slain — Wherewith many shall be slain. Privy chambers — Where they were hidden in hope to escape....

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