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EXECUTE JUDGMENTS - As upon the false gods of Egypt Exodus 12:12;
Numbers 33:4....
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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...
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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...
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BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_in the sight of the nations_ The nations saw Israel's wickedness, and
they shall also see her judgments, and they shall know that Jehovah is
God alone....
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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...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against
thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of
the nations.
BEHOLD I, EVEN I - awfully emphatic. I, even I, w...
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BANDS] By some divine restraint Ezekiel would be prevented from
turning. THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE] The number 430 represented the days of
the siege of Jerusalem as well as the sum of the years of the two...
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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...
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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 ‘
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IN THE SIGHT OF THE NATIONS. — The conspicuousness of Israel’s
position (see under Ezekiel 5:5) made it necessary that the punishment
for their failure to keep God’s law should be as public as their
s...
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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה
הִנְנִ֥י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Now follows the threat, that God was prepared to take vengeance.
_Behold, I, even, I, am against you _The particle גם _, gam,
“even,” _is used as we in French say, _yea, even: I, _even I. We
now see t...
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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,...
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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, EVEN I, [AM] AGAINST
THEE,.... Or, "behold, I [am] against thee, even I" u; who am the Lord
God omnipotent, great King, and a dreadful one; and a terrible th...
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am] against
thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of
the nations.
Ver. 8. _Behold, I, even I, am against thee._] Wh...
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In Eze. 5:8. "In the latter days thou shalt come into the land;" and
verse 16, "and thou shalt come up against my people as a cloud to
cover the land, and it shall be in the latter days." This more
em...
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_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...
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therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, even I, am against thee,
setting Himself against the Jewish nation in stern opposition, AND
WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENTS IN THE MIDST OF THEE IN THE SIGHT OF TH...
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THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
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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...
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THEREFORE; it is very just what God doth, he hath cause more than
enough given him to do so. BEHOLD; take notice, and consider me, not
as now for you, but against you. You look to the instruments, to...
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Ezekiel 5:8 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 execute H6213
(H8804) judgments H4941 midst H8432 sight...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 29:23;...