In the sight of the nations. — The conspicuousness of Israel’s position (see under Ezekiel 5:5) made it necessary that the punishment for their failure to keep God’s law should be as public as their sin. All had seen their unfaithfulness; all must see the consequent judgment.
EXECUTE JUDGMENTS - As upon the false gods of Egypt Exodus 12:12; Numbers 33:4....
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...
EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS. By the four preceding symbolical actions the doom has been made too terribly clear: the reason for it is now given. Jerusalem is the centre of the world, conspicuous alike...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6....
_in the sight of the nations_ The nations saw Israel's wickedness, and they shall also see her judgments, and they shall know that Jehovah is God alone....
Because she has surpassed the nations in evil, her chastisements shall be without example in severity. _Because ye multiplied_ R.V. _because ye are turbulent_. Both renderings assume an otherwise unkn...
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...
Explanation of the four preceding symbols Jerusalem, set in the midst of the nations and favoured of God above them all, has even exceeded them in wickedness (Ezekiel 5:5). Therefore God's judgments...
B. The First Threat 5:7-10 TRANSLATION (7) Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more tumultuous than the nations which are round about you in My statutes you have not walked, and My jud...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. BEHOLD I, EVEN I - awfully emphatic. I, even I, w...
BANDS] By some divine restraint Ezekiel would be prevented from turning. THE DAYS OF THY SIEGE] The number 430 represented the days of the siege of Jerusalem as well as the sum of the years of the two...
SYMBOLIC ACTIONS REPRESENTING JERUSALEM'S SIEGE AND CAPTIVITY Ezekiel is commanded to perform four remarkable actions setting forth the coming siege withits hardships, and the approaching captivity wi...
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 ‘
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י...
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...
How often the Lord complains of his people in the Old Testament, that in their sins, they were more stupid and senseless than the idolatrous nations around them. Never was it known, that heathens chan...
Now follows the threat, that God was prepared to take vengeance. _Behold, I, even, I, am against you _The particle גם _, gam, “even,” _is used as we in French say, _yea, even: I, _even I. We now see t...
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,...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, BEHOLD, EVEN I, [AM] AGAINST THEE,.... Or, "behold, I [am] against thee, even I" u; who am the Lord God omnipotent, great King, and a dreadful one; and a terrible th...
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. Ver. 8. _Behold, I, even I, am against thee._] Wh...
In Eze. 5:8. "In the latter days thou shalt come into the land;" and verse 16, "and thou shalt come up against my people as a cloud to cover the land, and it shall be in the latter days." This more em...
_Therefore, because ye multiplied more than the nations_ Their multiplying, in the common sense of the word, was a blessing promised to them, and could not be alleged against them as a crime; therefor...
therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I, even I, am against thee, setting Himself against the Jewish nation in stern opposition, AND WILL EXECUTE JUDGMENTS IN THE MIDST OF THEE IN THE SIGHT OF TH...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, wil...
THEREFORE; it is very just what God doth, he hath cause more than enough given him to do so. BEHOLD; take notice, and consider me, not as now for you, but against you. You look to the instruments, to...
Ezekiel 5:8 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 execute H6213 (H8804) judgments H4941 midst H8432 sight...
‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you are more turbulent than the nations which are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes nor have kept my ordinances, nor have done after th...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:8 EAT THEIR SONS. This gruesome prospect sometimes became a reality during siege warfare (see Lamentations 4:10). This was one of Go
_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...
1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 29:23;...