What does Ezekiel 21:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced."
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...
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...
APPOINT THEE TWO WAYS, &C.— _Appoint thee two roads for the king of Babylon's sword to come by: Let both go forth out of one land; and choose thou a way-mark: Choose it at the head of the road towards...
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...
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. APPOINT A WAY, THAT THE SWORD MAY COME TO RABBATH OF THE AMMONITES - distinct from Rabba...
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 hi...
_[Ezekiel 21:25]_ דֶּ֣רֶךְ תָּשִׂ֔ים לָ בֹ֣וא חֶ֔רֶב אֵ֖ת רַבַּ֣ת בְּנֵֽי ־עַמֹּ֑ון וְ אֶת ־יְהוּדָ֥ה...
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...
Mark a way, that the sword may come to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and (p) to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified. (p) That is, to the tribe of Judah that kept themselves in Jerusalem....
_Rabbath. They had formed a league with Sedecias, and Nabuchodonosor thought of punishing them first. (Haydock) --- But they joined his forces, Jeremias xii. 6., and xxvii. 3._...
Perhaps by the two ways is intended the double attack which the king of Babylon made on Jerusalem and the chief city of the Ammonites; but concerning which, as this scripture represents, he stood unde...
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...
APPOINT A WAY,.... Mark out a way, describe a road, draw one out upon the ground, or point out one upon a table, or tile: THAT THE SWORD MAY COME; in which the sword will come; or those that kill wit...
Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. Ver. 20. _And to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced._] Either against the one or the other of...
_Appoint thee two ways_ So as to represent them to the eyes of thy countrymen: see Ezekiel 4:1; “Designa in tabella, lapide, aut terra.” _Mark on a map, a stone, or on the earth._ Vatablus. _That the...
THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
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 who...
This royal city of the Ammonites, it seems, the king of Babylon had a quarrel with, as well as with Jerusalem, and he was resolved, when he came out of Babylon, to set upon one of them. There were two...
Ezekiel 21:20 Appoint H7760 (H8799) road H1870 sword H2719 go H935 (H8800) Rabbah H7237 Ammonites H1121 H5983 Judah H3063 fortified H1219 (H8803) Jerusalem H3389 Rabbath - Ezekiel 25:5; Deuteronomy 3...
“You will appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah, to Jerusalem the defenced.” The watchers wait in suspense as they see what has been mapped out before t...
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...
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 another symbolic action (see ch. Ezekiel...
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—(Ezekiel 21:18). The sword of the king of Babylon will smite Jerusalem, and then the Ammonites. Ezekiel 21:19. “APPOINT THEE TWO WAYS, THAT THE SWORD OF THE KING OF BABYLON MAY COME....
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 three variants of "south" are shown to...
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...
2 Chronicles 26:9; 2 Chronicles 32:5; 2 Chronicles 33:14; 2 Samuel 12:26; 2 Samuel 5:9; Amos 1:14; Deuteronomy 3:11; Ezekiel 25:5; Isaiah 22:10;...
To Judah — The Jews....