CHAPTER V _In this chapter the prophet shows, under the type of hair, the_ _judgments which God was about to execute on the inhabitants of_ _Jerusalem by famine, sword, and dispersion_, 14. _The type or allegory is then dropped, and God is introduced_ _declaring in plain terms the vengeance tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:2. Ezekiel 5:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:3. Ezekiel 5:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:4. Ezekiel 5:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:5. _THIS IS JERUSALEM: I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE_ _NATIONS_] I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to its _geographical situation_, as being equally in _the centre of the_ _habitable world_. But any poi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:6. _SHE HATH CHANGED MY JUDGMENTS_] God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad and idolatrous as they were, they had a greater degree of _morality_ among them than the Jews had. Ha... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:9. _I WILL DO IN THEE THAT WHICH I HAVE NOT DONE_] The destruction of Jerusalem by _Nebuchadnezzar_ was one of the greatest calamities that ever fell on any nation or place _before_; and that by the Romans under Titus exceeded all that has taken place _since_. These two sackages of t... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:10. _THE FATHERS SHALL EAT THE SONS_] Though we have not this fact so particularly stated in _history_, yet we cannot doubt of it, considering the extremities to which they were reduced during the siege. The same is referred to by Jeremiah, Lamentations 4:10. Even the _women_, who we... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:12. _A THIRD PART OF THEE_] See Clarke's notes on Ezekiel 5:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:13. _I WILL CAUSE MY FURY TO REST_] My displeasure, and the evidences of it, shall not be _transient_; they shall be _permanent_ upon you, and among you. And is not this dreadfully true to the present day?... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:16. _THE EVIL ARROWS OF FAMINE_] Famine and pestilence are represented as _poisoned arrows_, inflicting death wherever they _wound_. The ancients represented them in the same way.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Ezekiel 5:17. _SO WILL I SEND UPON YOU FAMINE AND EVIL BEASTS, AND_ _THEY SHALL BEREAVE THEE_] Wild beasts always multiply in depopulated countries. In England, _wolves_ abounded when the country was thinly peopled, it is now full of inhabitants, and there is not one wolf in the land. Nebuchad... [ Continue Reading ]