Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, (a) and drop [thy word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
(a) Speak sensibly, that all may understand.
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, (a) and drop [thy word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
(a) Speak sensibly, that all may understand.
Verse Ezekiel 21:2. _SET THY FACE TOWARD JERUSALEM_] This is a continuation of the preceding prophecy; and in this chapter the prophet sets before them, in the _plainest language_, what the foregoing...
The first word of judgment Ezekiel 21:1. Ezekiel speaks first to the people of Israel, shows the universality of the coming destructions, and indicates by a sign (that of sighing) the sadness of the c...
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...
SON OF MAN. See note on Ezekiel 2:1. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. THE LAND OF ISRAEL. the soil of Israel, Hebrew. _'admath Israel_. See note on Ezekiel 11:17....
Ezekiel 21:1-5. These verses, though still figurative, are plainer than the preceding, of which they furnish the explanation. The sword of the Lord is drawn finally from its sheath, to which it shall...
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...
_the holy places_ Or, sanctuaries. These are not the rural sanctuaries or high places, but the holy buildings in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 7:24; Lamentations 2:6)....
SET THY FACE TOWARD JERUSALEM— As if God had said, "Since they deride thee, and call thee a speaker of parables, use not the parable of the southern forest, but speak plainly of Jerusalem and Israel b...
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version an...
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, DROP THY WORD TOWARD THE HOLY PLACES - the three parts of the temple: t...
3, 4. THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED] corresponding to the green tree and the dry in the parable (Ezekiel 20:47). In spite of his strict theory of retribution in Ezekiel 18, Ezekiel recognised the fact...
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...
SET THY FACE... DROP THY WORD... PROPHESY. — These expressions, with the “say to the land” of Ezekiel 21:3, connect this with 20:46, 47; but there they were followed by figurative terms, while here we...
_[Ezekiel 21:7]_ בֶּן ־אָדָ֗ם שִׂ֤ים פָּנֶ֨יךָ֙ אֶל...
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...
It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that t...
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...
SON OF MAN, SET THY FACE TOWARD JERUSALEM,.... Which shows that this city was meant by "the south", Ezekiel 20:46: AND DROP THY WORD TOWARD THE HOLY PLACES; which also are meant by the south in the p...
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop [thy word] toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, Ver. 2. _Set thy face._] See on Ezekiel 20:46 . _ And drop thy word._]...
_Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem_ Here God directs the prophet to declare in plain language, what he had ordered him to speak allegorically, from the 46th to the 48th verses of the foregoing...
Son of man, set thy face, in firm determination, TOWARD JERUSALEM, the capital of this same south country of which the Lord had just spoken in figurative language, AND DROP THY WORD, in a stream of de...
The Sword of the Lord....
1-17 Here is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all might know it was his decree against a wicked...
SET THY FACE; put thyself in a posture may bespeak thy going to prophesy. TOWARD JERUSALEM, or against Jerusalem, called, EZEKIEL 20:46, _forest of the south field. Drop thy word_; of the phrase see E...
Ezekiel 21:2 Son H1121 man H120 set H7760 (H8798) face H6440 Jerusalem H3389 preach H5197 (H8685) places...
THE RIDDLE EXPLAINED. ‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards Jerusalem, and drop your word towards the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel, and...
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...
_Behold, I am against thee._ A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT I. The prophet’s compellation, or title--“Son of man.” There are but two persons in Scripture which have eminently this name--the one is our Saviou...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
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
CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21. THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD. THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed, should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
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...
Acts 6:13; Acts 6:14; Amos 7:16; Deuteronomy 32:2; Ephesians 6:19;...
The holy places — The temple and all parts of it....