Ezekiel 21:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. THE LAND OF ISRAEL. the soil of Israel, Hebrew. _'admath Israel_. See note on Ezekiel 11:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. DRAW FORTH MY SWORD, See note on Ezekiel 5:2; Ezekiel 5:17, and Ezekiel 12:14. THE RIGHTEOUS, &c. Therefore Ezekiel 18:2; Ezekiel 18:3, is not yet ful filled, but corresponds with the green tree and the dry of Ezekiel 20:47. THE RIGHTEOUS. a righteous... [ Continue Reading ]
IT SHALL NOT RETURN, &c.: i.e. until it has executed its mission.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach,_ App-9. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. See note on Ezekiel 2:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Jehovah. App-4. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read _Adonai._ App-4. A SWORD,. sword. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. a great or sharp sword.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE. SORE SLAUGHTER. Figure of speech _Polyptbton_ (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew to slay. slaughter. GLITTER. flash as lightning. SHOULD WE THEN MAKE MIRTH? or, "should we flourish [the sceptre of My son (i.e. of Judah? " IT, &c. i.e. "Jehovah's sword despiseth the [wooden] sceptre of My son (i.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SLAYER: i.e. the king of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT: i.e. the sword of Jehovah, the king of Babylon. PRINCES. leaders. BE. come. TERRORS BY, &c.. who shall be delivered to the sword with My People. SMITE THEREFORE, &c. This was the symbol of grief in man, as beating the breast was in woman.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS. TRIAL. sit (Jehovah's sword) has been tried (or proved). AND WHAT, &c.. and what [will happen or be the result] if [Jehovah's sword shall not despise] the [wooden] sceptre? IT SHALL BE NO MORE. it will not [despise it. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.... [ Continue Reading ]
SMITE THINE HANDS TOGETHER, &c.. sign of disappointment or grief in men. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 24:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR RUINS. the overthrown. So the Septuagint and Syriac. Compare Jeremiah 18:23. BRIGHT. bright as lightning. WRAPPED UP keen, or sharp.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO THEE. Figure of speech _Apostrophe._ App-6. Addressedto the sword. THEE: i.e. the sword. Not Ezekiel. It is feminine, not masculine:. Go to the right, turn to the left: or, One stroke to the right, another to the left, &c. THY FACE. thine edge.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL ALSO SMITE, &c. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THE SWORD... MAY COME. for the sword to come. BOTH TWAIN. the two ways. CHOOSE THOU. PLACE. grave. hand: i.e. set up a SIGN. post.... [ Continue Reading ]
STOOD. bath come to. stand. TO USE DIVINATION. to divine. divination. MADE HIS ARROWS BRIGHT. hath shaken his arrows. This was one of the modes of divination by which the arrow (marked like. lot), gave the decision. IMAGES. teraphim. LOOKED IN, &c.. inspected the liver; another mode of divinatio... [ Continue Reading ]
APPOINT CAPTAINS. set up battering-rams. Compare Ezekiel 4:2. THE MOUTH IN THE SLAUGHTER. a hole by. breach. SHOUTING. a war shout. AND. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "and" in the text. A FORT. a siege wall.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM: i.e. Zedekiah and the rulers in Jerusalem. sworn oaths. Referring to Zedekiah's reacherous breach of faith with the king of Babylon. See Ezekiel 17:11. INIQUITY. treachery. Hebrew. _'avdh_. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRANSGRESSIONS. rebellion (plural of Majesty). great rebellion. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44. SINS. Hebrew. _chata_ '. App-44. plural of Majesty. great sin. WITH THE HAND. captured, or made captives.... [ Continue Reading ]
PROFANE. pierced through: i.e. deadly wounded ONE. Zedekiah. type of the future Antichrist. Compare Revelation 13:3. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha._ App-44. x, INIQUITY... AN END. Figure of speech _Hypallage_. App-8, Hebrew "iniquity of the end". an end OF THE INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah_, as in... [ Continue Reading ]
BE THE SAME: or, endure. They might exalt and abase. but Jehovah would not recognise it.... [ Continue Reading ]
OVERTURN, &c. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for great emphasis. UNTIL HE COME: i.e. the promised Messiah Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 49:10). App-92. See Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 42:1.Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:17; Zechariah 6:12; Zechariah 6:13, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR REPROACH. Brought against Jerusalem. See Jeremiah 49:1.Zephaniah 2:8. TO CONSUME. that when it beginneth it may flash like lightning.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WICKED. wicked ones (plural) their. Refers to "them" (Ezekiel 21:23).... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural _of 'enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]