He made his arrows bright] RV 'He shook the arrows to and fro.' Two arrows, inscribed with the names of the two cities, were put into a bag and shaken, and then one was drawn out. With images] RV 'the teraphim,' the portable images of the gods whose advice was sought. Looked in the liver] another ceremony of divination. The liver would be that of the animal sacrificed on the occasion, and an omen would be drawn from its shape or colour.
Verse Ezekiel 21:21. _FOR THE KING OF BABYLON STOOD AT THE PARTING OF THE_ _WAY_] He was in doubt which way he should first take; whether to humble the Ammonites by taking their metropolis, _Riblath_...
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...
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), g...
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...
_for the king … stood_ STANDETH. All the verbs had better be put in the present. _made_his _arrows bright_ he SHAKETH THE ARROWS, he CONSULTETH THE TERAPHIM, he LOOKETH in the liver. These ceremonies...
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...
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. FOR THE KING OF...
21:21 parting (b-9) Lit. 'mother.' teraphim, (c-31) i.e. household gods....
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...
TO USE DIVINATION. — Various particular forms of divination are mentioned just afterwards. This is a general term to include them all. Divination was always resorted to by the heathen on occasions of...
_[Ezekiel 21:26]_ כִּֽי ־עָמַ֨ד מֶלֶךְ ־בָּבֶ֜ל אֶל...
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...
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in (r) the liver. (r) He used...
Shuffling. Hebrew, "polishing." Syriac, &c., "shooting an arrow upwards." He was undetermined which to attack first, and perhaps wrote Jerusalem on one and Rabbath on another arrow; (St. Jerome, &c.;...
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...
FOR THE KING OF BABYLON STOOD AT THE PARTING OF THE WAY, AT THE HEAD OF THE TWO WAYS,.... That is, he would stand there; the prophet knew that it was certain it should be, and therefore represents it...
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. Ver. 21. _For t...
_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...
THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, literally, "at the mother of the way," undecided, for the moment, which way to take, AT THE HEAD OF THE TWO WAYS, TO USE DIVINATION, to determi...
PARTING OF THE WAY: _ Heb._ mother of the way ARROWS: Or, knives IMAGES: _ Heb._ Teraphim...
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...
OLBGrk; The prophet, by reason of the certainty of the thing, speaketh of what shall be as if it were already; he stood, i.e. he will make a halt, pitch his camp, and consult, on the borders of Arabia...
Ezekiel 21:21 king H4428 Babylon H894 stands H5975 (H8804) parting H517 road H1870 fork H7218 two H8147 roads...
“For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination.” Ezekiel slowly and deliberately depicts the king of Babylon as reaching the fork in the road...
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...
_The parting of the ways._ WHICH WAY When you have been wandering in the country you have sometimes come to where two roads branched away from the one you were on--like the two arms of the letter Y--...
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 15:23; 2 Kings 23:24; Acts 16:16; Deuteronomy 18:10;...
Stood — The prophet speaks of what shall be, as if it were already. To use — To consult with his gods, and to cast lots. Arrows — Writing on them the names of the cities, then putting them into a quiv...