Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Ezekiel 33:26
Ye stand upon your sword. — Not to engage in war, which cannot here be thought of, but to take part in individual crimes of violence.
Ye stand upon your sword. — Not to engage in war, which cannot here be thought of, but to take part in individual crimes of violence.
Verse Ezekiel 33:26. _YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD_] Ye live by plunder, rapine, and murder. Ye are every way impure; and shall ye possess the land? No....
The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23; then he tu...
II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48) Chapter S 33-34 A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd _ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and this alike for himself and his hearers. EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they are responsible for...
YE: i.e. Ye [men]. The verb is masculine. YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD. Ye take your stand (first occurrence Genesis 18:8; Genesis 18:22), [leaning] upon, &c. The posture assumed by necromancers waiting...
The confirmation by the fugitives of all his previous predictions gave the prophet boldness to speak anew, and what he says is but a continuation of that which he had said before, and had been so lite...
_stand upon your sword_ Hardly means, the footing on which ye deal with men is the sword; but probably, ye occupy yourselves with the sword, cf. Ezekiel 44:24. _work abomination_ The term is mostly ap...
YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD— _You stand in your highway,_ or _the corners of the streets, and commit your abominations._ Houbigant. This expression seems to refer to their public and open profession of i...
C. The Fall of Jerusalem and Further Prophecies 33:21-29 TRANSLATION (21) And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, the tenth month, the fifth day of the month, the fugitive from Jerus...
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD - your dependence is not on right and equity, b...
§ 1. THE RESTORATION (EZEKIEL 33-39) After an introductory passage (Ezekiel 33:1), and two short prophecies against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles (Ezekiel 33:21), this sect...
THE PROPHET, THE SURVIVORS, AND THE EXILES In Ezekiel 24:27 it was announced to Ezekiel that the silence which began with his wife's death and the siege of Jerusalem would be ended when fugitives from...
עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם עַֽל ־חַרְבְּכֶם֙ עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ן תֹּועֵבָ֔ה וְ...
THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN Ezekiel 33:1 ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity with which in the East in...
Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
Ye stand upon your (o) sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? (o) As they that are ready still to shed blood....
_Swords, thinking to live thereby, (Genesis xxvii. 40.) and to be secure. But I will disarm you. The pestilence shall find out those in the rocks, ver. 27._...
By comparing what the Prophet Jeremiah, in his history of the Church hath recorded, with what is here written, we discover that it was a whole year, and more, from the destruction of Jerusalem to Ezek...
In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations, and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
Ver. 26 YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD,.... You trust in it, and think to support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it by that means. So the Targum, "you stand in your strength:''...
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? Ver. 26. _Ye stand upon your sword._] _Vivitur ex rapto._ He that hath the...
_Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord_ Remove from them this destructive carnal confidence, and show them what they do, and how far they are from being Abraham's genuine seed. _Ye eat with the blood_ Wh...
Ye stand upon your sword, depending upon the forceful application of what they desired, YE WORK ABOMINATION, by committing base crimes without a show of regard for God's will, AND YE DEFILE EVERY ONE...
THE RELATION OF THE PEOPLE TO EZEKIEL...
21-29 Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct...
YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD; you trust to your sword, and stand with it as it were drawn ready to kill and slay, you do all with violence and force, not regarding what is right and equal, and fear no res...
Ezekiel 33:26 rely H5975 (H8804) sword H2719 commit H6213 (H8804) abominations H8441 defile H2930 (H8765) one...
“Wherefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘You eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to idols, and shed blood. And shall you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abomination...
CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who are not sincere in their professions. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham. CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:1 After the Fall of Jerusalem. Following the central collection of foreign-nation oracles, the focus returns to Judah (or “the house of Israel,” as Ezekiel usually calls it)...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:23 Ezekiel addresses those left in Judah after its fall. The Judeans’ logic of arguing (v. Ezekiel 33:24) from God’s blessings to the one
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:25 YOU EAT FLESH WITH THE BLOOD. The Hebrew is literally “you eat over the blood,” a saying used also in Leviticus 19:26. The ref
EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again. The early portion of the chapte...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 33:1 If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those captives who are in Babylon. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
1 Kings 11:5; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Samuel 2:30; Deuteronomy 29:18;...
Ye stand — You trust to your sword; you do all with violence. Abominations — Idolatry....