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.
Verse Ezekiel 21:22. _AT HIS RIGHT HAND WAS THE DIVINATION FOR JERUSALEM_] He had probably written on _two_ arrows; _one, Jerusalem_; the _other,_ _Riblath_; the _third_, left _blank_. He drew, and t...
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judaea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go forth not on Judah only, but also on such neighboring tribes as the Ammonites (compare...
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...
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...
He who is, or who wields, the sword, the king of Babylon. The verses furnish the interpretation of the preceding passage. The prophet is commanded to represent a way which parts into two ways. At the...
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...
_at his right hand_ IN HIS right hand IS THE LOT (or, oracle) "Jerusalem," TO SET BATTERING RAMS, to open the mouth WITH A CRY. Though "battering rams" occurs again in the verse the word can have no o...
FOR THE KING OF BABYLON STOOD, &C.— _For the king of Babylon stands,_ &c.—_He casts lots by, blends_ or _mingles the arrows; he inquires by images, he pours upon_ or _pries into the liver_ or _entrail...
C. The Sword of the King of Babylon 21:18-27 TRANSLATION (18) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (19) Now as for you, son of man, make for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of...
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a...
21:22 lot (d-7) Lit. 'divination,' as vers. 21,23; 'oracle,' Proverbs 16:10 ....
AT HIS RIGHT HAND] RV 'In his right hand. Nebuchadrezzar drew the arrow marked 'Jerusalem.'...
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...
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...
AT HIS RIGHT HAND WAS. — This is too exactly literal. The sense is, _into his right hand came_ the divination which determined his course towards Jerusalem. “Captains” should be as in the margin, _bat...
_[Ezekiel 21:27]_ בִּֽ ימִינֹ֞ו הָיָ֣ה ׀ הַ קֶּ֣סֶם...
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...
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...
Right of one going by Thapsacus and Damascus, and not through the Desert Arabia, for thus Rabbath would have been to the right. God permitted this divination to succeed in his wrath. The devil pushed...
Perhaps by the two ways is intended the double attack which the king of Babylon made on Jerusalem and the chief city of the Ammonites; but concerning which, as this scripture represents, he stood unde...
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...
AT HIS RIGHT HAND WAS THE DIVINATION FOR JERUSALEM,.... All his divinations, whether by arrows, or by images, or by liver, all directed him to his right hand, to turn to that which led to Jerusalem; a...
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against the gates, to cast...
_For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way_ The prophet here expresses what was future as if it were past, according to the usual style of the prophets, when speaking of things soon to c...
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, that is, Nebuchadnezzar held up in his right hand the arrow marked "Jerusalem," to indicate that this was their goal, TO APPOINT CAPTAINS, rather, t...
THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
CAPTAINS: Or, battering rams. _Heb._ rams...
18-27 By the Spirit of prophecy Ezekiel foresaw Nebuchadnezzar's march from Babylon, which he would determine by divination. The Lord would overturn the government of Judah, till the coming of Him wh...
Either the divination which concerned Jerusalem was managed on his right hand, that way the arrows were thrown, the images stood, and sacrifices were offered; or else the lot drawn with the right hand...
Ezekiel 21:22 hand H3225 divination H7081 Jerusalem H3389 up H7760 (H8800) rams H3733 call H6605 (H8800)...
“In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth for the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up...
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...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:18 In v. Ezekiel 21:11 the sword was committed to the “hand of the slayer,” identified here as THE KING OF BABYLON. Ezekiel performs
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(Ezekiel 21:18). The sword of the king of Babylon will smite Jerusalem, and then the Ammonites. Ezekiel 21:19. “APPOINT THEE TWO WAYS, THAT THE SWORD OF THE KING OF BABYLON MAY COME....
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
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...
1 Samuel 17:20; Exodus 32:17; Exodus 32:18; Ezekiel 4:2; Jeremiah 32:2
The divination — The divination which concerned Jerusalem, was managed on his right hand....