Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the (x) diadem, and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high.
(x) Some refer this to the priest's attire: for Jehozadak the priest went into captivity with the king.
Verse Ezekiel 21:26. _EXALT_ him that is _low_] Give Gedaliah the government of Judea. _ABASE_ him that is _high_] Depose _Zedekiah _- remove his diadem, and take off his crown....
The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judaea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go forth not on Judah only, but also on such neighboring tribes as the Ammonites (compare...
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...
BE THE SAME: or, endure. They might exalt and abase. but Jehovah would not recognise it....
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 term "diadem" is used of the mitre of the high-priest, Exodus 28:4. There can be no reference to the high-priest here, the passage refers exclusively to the royal house, which shall be discrowned....
He who is, or who wields, the sword, the king of Babylon. The verses furnish the interpretation of the preceding passage. The prophet is commanded to represent a way which parts into two ways. At the...
THIS SHALL NOT BE THE SAME— _This is not the same which it was; that which was humble hath exalted itself; thou, therefore, abase the exalted._ This alludes to ch. Ezekiel 17:14 where it is said, _Tha...
C. The Sword of the King of Babylon 21:18-27 TRANSLATION (18) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (19) Now as for you, son of man, make for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. REMOVE THE DIADEM - [ mitsnepet (H4701)], rather,...
21:26 [more]. (e-20) Lit. 'this shall not be that.'...
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...
REMOVE THE DIADEM. — The word translated “diadem” is rendered in every other place in which it occurs (Exodus 28:4; Exodus 28:37 _bis,_ Exodus 28:39; Exodu
_[Ezekiel 21:31]_ כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הָסִיר֙...
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...
Diadem, ( cidarim.) Some think this was th ornament of the high priest, (St. Jerome; Chaldean) denoting that he should perish as well as the king. (Haydock) --- This. The royal crown of Juda had exalt...
Here the Lord speaks personally to the King of Israel, and a very awful address it is. But, what I beg the Reader more immediately to observe is, the promise of One coming, whose right the crown and d...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, REMOVE THE DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN,.... That is, from Zedekiah; and as these are the regalia and ensigns of royal dignity, taking them off signifies the deposition of h...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this [shall] not [be] the same: exalt [him that is] low, and abase [him that is] high. Ver. 26. _Remove the diadem._] This was a fi...
_And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel_ The words are directed to Zedekiah, whom the prophet calls _profane_ and _wicked_, chiefly with respect to his breaking that solemn oath, uttered in the nam...
THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
Thus saith the Lord God, Remove the diadem, the high-priestly miter, with which Zedekiah was associated as the representative of a priestly people, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN, the symbol of kingly power;...
18-27 By the Spirit of prophecy Ezekiel foresaw Nebuchadnezzar's march from Babylon, which he would determine by divination. The Lord would overturn the government of Judah, till the coming of Him wh...
Either God speaks to the prophet to declare the thing, or to Nebuchadnezzar to do the thing, to take away the diadem, the royal tire of the head, which the king did ordinarily and daily wear. THE CROW...
Ezekiel 21:26 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Remove H5493 (H8685) turban H4701 off H7311 ...
“And you, Oh wicked one marked for death (literally ‘Oh slain wicked one'), the prince of Israel whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Remove the turba...
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...
_Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown._ THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF REVOLUTION The true philosophical history of man is that which reveals to us the causes and progress,...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:18 In v. Ezekiel 21:11 the sword was committed to the “hand of the slayer,” identified here as THE KING OF BABYLON. Ezekiel performs
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:24 Now that God has given the sword to the Babylonian king, judgment on Jerusalem is announced. The “wicked” PRINCE OF ISRAEL must be Zedekiah....
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 21:23. Though this announcement of God’s judgments will appear to the people of Judea as a deceptive divination, yet it will surely come to pass. The prophet, however, sees...
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
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...
1 Samuel 2:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; 2 Kings 25:27; 2 Kings 25:6; Ezekiel 12:12
The diadem — The royal attire of the head, which the king daily wore. Shall not be the same — The kingdom shall never be what it hath been. Him that is low — Jeconiah. The advance of this captive king...