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 that good men as well as bad would perish in the siege of Jerusalem.
CHAPTER XXI _The prophet goes on to denounce the fate of Jerusalem and_ _Judea; using signs of vehement grief, to denote the greatness_ _of the calamity_, 2-7. _He then changes the emblem to that...
The first word of judgment Ezekiel 21:1. Ezekiel speaks first to the people of Israel, shows the universality of the coming destructions, and indicates by a sign (that of sighing) the sadness of the c...
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...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4....
Ezekiel 21:1-5. These verses, though still figurative, are plainer than the preceding, of which they furnish the explanation. The sword of the Lord is drawn finally from its sheath, to which it shall...
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...
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version an...
_AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
_[Ezekiel 21:6]_ וַ יְהִ֥י דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אֵלַ֥י...
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...
CONTENTS The Prophet is still going on with his commission of preaching to the people. In this chapter he prophesieth against Jerusalem, under the image of a sword....
It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that t...
As Calvin’s Latin Translation ends here, so the version by the Translator comes naturally to a close. It has not been thought necessary to re-translate from the original the remainder of Ezekiel, as t...
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...
AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING. Upon the above excuse or complaint about speaking in parables; wherefore the prophet is ordered to speak in plainer language to the people. It is very pr...
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _And the word of the Lord._] See Ezekiel 18:1 ....
_Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem_ Here God directs the prophet to declare in plain language, what he had ordered him to speak allegorically, from the 46th to the 48th verses of the foregoing...
The Sword of the Lord....
And the word of the Lord came unto me, evidently in answer to his complaint, saying,...
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...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 21 Ezekiel prophesieth the sword of the Lord against all flesh in the land of Israel, sighing bitterly for a sign, EZEKIEL 21:1. Another prophecy of a bright and sharp sword, commissio...
Ezekiel 21:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...
THE RIDDLE EXPLAINED. ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards Jerusalem, and drop your word towards the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel, and...
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 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
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
CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21. THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD. THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed, should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
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...
Ezekiel 21:1...