Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Ezekiel 5:2
A mount] an embankment raised in ancient warfare by besiegers to enable them to approach the top of a city wall.
A mount] an embankment raised in ancient warfare by besiegers to enable them to approach the top of a city wall.
Verse Ezekiel 5:2. Ezekiel 5:1....
“The third part burnt in the midst of the city” represents those who perished within the city during the siege; “the third part smitten about it” (the city) “with” the sword, those who were killed abo...
Ezekiel 5:1. The sharp knife is the symbol of the king of Babylon. (See Isaiah 7:20 .) He was God's instrument in the execution of His wrath; the people are represented by the hair. The third part of...
(D) THE FATE OF THE BESIEGED. Yet the last symbol is perhaps the most terrible of all; it suggests the all but irretrievable completeness of the destruction. Ezekiel is commanded to take a sharp sword...
IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY. Which he had graven on the brick See the signification in Ezekiel 5:12, FULFILLED. completed. Compare Ezekiel 4:8. A. the. Compare Ezekiel 5:1. IN to. WIND. Hebrew
Ezekiel 5:1-4. Symbol shewing the fate of the population during the siege and after it, and their dispersion among the nations The prophet is commanded to take a sharp sword and use it as a barber's...
_third part in the midst of the city_ If we could suppose that the prophet were strict in his symbolism the "city" here would be that graven upon the brick (ch. Ezekiel 4:1). There is no reason to sup...
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
WHEN THE DAYS OF THE SIEGE ARE FULFILLED— _While the days of the siege shall continue:_ that is, of the visionary siege spoken of in the preceding chapter. This verse is fully explained by the 12th....
IV. PARABLE OF THE NATION'S FATE 5:1-4 TRANSLATION (1) And as for you, son of man, take to yourself a sharp sword, for a barber's razor, take it, and cause it to pass over your head and your beard, a...
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou sha...
5:2 fire (a-9) Lit. 'light,' and so in Isaiah 31:9 ....
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 5 EZEKIEL CUTS AND DIVIDES HIS HAIR – EZEKIEL 5:1-4 V1 ‘
BURN WITH FIRE A THIRD ART IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY. — It is better to suppose this done only in description than to imagine that the prophet carried it out in act upon the tile on which the city (Jer...
שְׁלִשִׁ֗ית בָּ † א֤וּר תַּבְעִיר֙ בְּ תֹ֣וךְ...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
In this chapter we have the description of the last of the four signs. The prophet was commanded to take a sword, sharpened as a barber's razor, and therewith to cut off his hair and his beard. The ha...
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the (b) city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a sword: and a third part tho...
Third. Septuagint and Theodotion read "a fourth," as also [in] ver. 12., (Calmet) thus assigning half to be burnt by death (pestilence) and famine. The other half of the people falls a prey to the swo...
The type is very expressive, and full to the purpose. And if we consider the judgment here spoken of spiritually, (and no doubt it was so intended), the head and the hair, represent Christ and his Chu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
THOU, SHALL BURN WITH FIRE A THIRD PART IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY,.... Of Jerusalem, as portrayed upon the tile, Ezekiel 4:1; or the prophet was now in Chaldea. The burning of the third part of the hai...
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou sh...
_Thou shall burn a third part in the midst of the city_ In the midst of that portraiture of the city, which the prophet was commanded to make, chap. Ezekiel 4:1. This signified the destruction of the...
THE SIGN ITSELF...
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part, namely, of the hair thus set apart by his careful division, IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY, WHEN THE DAYS OF THE SIEGE ARE FULFILLED, when the city is taken by the Ch...
1-4 The prophet must shave off the hair of his head and beard, which signifies God's utter rejecting and abandoning that people. One part must be burned in the midst of the city, denoting the multitu...
This verse tells you into how many parts the hair was to be divided, and how to be disposed of, and so plain it needs little explication. WITH FIRE; so either pestilence, or famine, with the displeasu...
Ezekiel 5:2 burn H1197 (H8686) fire H217 one-third H7992 midst H8432 city H5892 days H3117 siege H4692 finished...
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS SHAVEN BEARD AND HEAD. “And you, son of man, you take a sharp sword. As a barber's razor you will take it to you. And you will cause it to pass over your head and on your beard...
CONTENTS: Sign of the sharp knife. Famine, pestilence and the sword impending. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: When nations (or persons) are made great, it is with design that they may do good...
Ezekiel 5:1. _Son of man, take thee a sharp knife a barber's razor._ Clip thy hair, and shave thy beard. Then divide and subdivide the hair into twenty four parts, and take eight parts, precisely the...
_Take thee a sharp knife._ GOD’S JUDGMENTS UPON THE WICKED 1. Wicked men are of little worth; take a whole city of them, they are of no more account with God than a little hair of the head or beard....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:1 RAZOR. Priests were not to shave off their hair (Ezekiel 44:20; see also...
_The last methods of punishment symbolised and interpreted_ (chap. Ezekiel 5:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The requirements made of Ezekiel still proceed in his house. Already he has been a sign that Jerusalem...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 5:1 TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The former had ma...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Now the fourth thing that he uses as an illustration. Take a sharp knife, sharpen it like a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard (Ezekiel 5:1). Shave your head and...
Amos 9:2; Amos 9:3; Ezekiel 12:14; Ezekiel 4:1; Ezekiel 5:12;...
A third part — Described on the tile, Ezekiel 4:1, a type of what should be done in Jerusalem. The days — When the three hundred and ninety days of thy lying against the portrayed city shall be ended....