Shall I cause it] RV 'cause it.' As it stands this is a command to Ammon to sheathe the sword, and hence the sword in Ezekiel 21:28 is generally understood to be theirs. But the prophecy is so closely parallel otherwise to the preceding one that it is probable that the text in Ezekiel 21:30 is corrupt, and that the sword in Ezekiel 21:28 is the Lord's.
Verse Ezekiel 21:30. _I WILL JUDGE THEE_] This seems to refer to Nebuchadnezzar, who, after his return from Jerusalem, became insane, and lived like a beast for _seven_ years; but was afterwards resto...
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...
Appendix. 28 32. Threatening prophecy against Ammon The passage is obscure, but several things seem evident. 1. In spite of the similarities between the language of Ezekiel 21:28 and that in Ezekiel...
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...
_Shall I … return_ RETURN IT INTO ITS SHEATH! Ammon is commanded to put back his sword to its sheath; his dreams of conquests abroad are vain, he shall be visited and destroyed in his own land. On "na...
D. The Sword Against Ammon 21:28-32 TRANSLATION (28) And as for you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon and their taunt, and say: O sword, keen-edg...
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. SHALL I CAUSE IT TO RETURN INTO HIS SHEATH? - namely, without first...
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...
SHALL I CAUSE IT TO RETURN? — There is nothing in the original to indicate either a question, or that this is spoken in the first person. It is addressed to the Ammonites, “Return it” (the sword) “int...
_[Ezekiel 21:35]_ הָשַׁ֖ב אֶל ־תַּעְרָ֑הּ בִּ מְקֹ֧ום...
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...
Sheath. The sword of Babylon, after raging against many nations, was shortly to be judged and destroyed at home by the Medes and Persians. (Challoner) --- After Nabuchodonosor had chastised the nation...
The prophecy here is of Ammon, whom the King of Babylon also subdued as well as Jerusalem. The Lord hath been pleased to intersperse the history of Israel, here and there, with the account of other na...
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...
SHALL I CAUSE IT TO RETURN INTO HIS SHEATH?.... The drawn and furbished sword of the Chaldeans? no, I will not; it shall never return or be put up until the Ammonites are utterly consumed. Some read t...
Shall I cause [it] to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. Ver. 30. _Shall I cause it to return?_] No, but it shall still eat y...
_Shall I cause it to return into his sheath?_ Shall the sword that is drawn to execute the judgments of God upon Ammon be put up in its sheath before it has done its work? Surely not. _I will judge th...
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? namely, without having performed this work of vengeance; or, "Cause it to return to its sheath," the punishment being carried out with great rapidity, so th...
THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
SHALL I CAUSE IT TO RETURN: Or, cause to it to return...
28-32 The diviners of the Ammonites made false prophecies of victory. They would never recover their power, but in time would be wholly forgotten. Let us be thankful to be employed as instruments of m...
Some read it without interrogation, as an advice to the Ammonites to put up the sword they had drawn for their defence, as being to no purpose to resist. If it be an interrogation, it is such as more...
Ezekiel 21:30 Return H7725 (H8685) sheath H8593 judge H8199 (H8799) place H4725 created H1254 (H8738) land...
“Cause it to return to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you. And I will pour out my indignation on you, and I will blow on you with the fire of...
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 21:30 The instruction to RETURN the sword TO ITS SHEATH (v. Ezekiel 21:30) completes the action begu
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 21:28. The overthrow of the Ammonites. Israel is to rise after judgment, but Ammon is to be utterly destroyed. Ezekiel 21:28. “CONCERNING THE AMMONITES, AND CONCERNING THEIR...
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...
Ezekiel 16:3; Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 21:4; Ezekiel 21:5
Shall I cause it — God will by no means suffer the sword to be sheathed. Judge thee — Condemn, and execute....