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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 count...
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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...
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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...
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SO WILL. SEND, Sc, Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus
26:22.Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:24),
I WILL BRING THE SWORD, Re. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_evil beasts_ The three great plagues often specified are, famine,
pestilence and sword (ch. Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel
14:19), to which a fourth is sometimes added, evil beasts (ch....
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FAMINE AND EVIL BEASTS— That is, by a figure called by the Greeks
εν δια δυοιν, _the hungry and the evil beast._ Instead of
_blood,_ Houbigant reads death or mortality.
REFLECTIONS.—1st, Jerusalem's...
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E. The Third Threat 5:16-17
TRANSLATION
(16) When I send against them the evil arrows of famine that are for
destruction which I shall send against you to destroy you; and I shall
increase famine up...
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So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall
bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I
will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
SO WI...
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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...
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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
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וְ שִׁלַּחְתִּ֣י עֲ֠לֵיכֶם רָעָ֞ב וְ
חַיָּ֤ה...
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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...
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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...
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REFLECTIONS
READER! let us in the perusal of this Chapter, observe the gracious
mercy of a Covenant God, who in the midst of judgments, will have his
people regard his love. Hence the Prophet shall be...
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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...
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Here God speaks generally concerning certain adversities — _I will
send evil upon them, _he says, but immediately afterwards he adds the
kind of evil, of which he had not yet spoken. Hence, under the...
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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,...
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SO WILL I SEND UPON YOU FAMINE, AND EVIL BEASTS,.... Famine is
repeated for the further confirmation of it; and "evil beasts" are
added, by whom are meant, not the Chaldeans, comparable to such; but
l...
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So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave
thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will
bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it].
Ver....
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_So it shall be an instruction to the nations_ They shall learn from
such an example of vengeance to fear me, and be afraid of my
judgments. _When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine_
Hai...
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so will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, Leviticus 26:22, AND
THEY SHALL BEREAVE THEE; AND PESTILENCE, in various severe epidemics,
AND BLOOD SHALL PASS THROUGH THEE, in slaughter by the Chalde...
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THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
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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...
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EVIL BEASTS; Heb. _evil beast_: either the king of Babylon, which,
like a ravenous and insatiable beast, tore and devoured all. Or,
literally, lions, bears, &c., which are one of his four sore
judgmen...
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Ezekiel 5:17 send H7971 (H8765) famine H7458 wild H7451 beasts H2416
bereave H7921 (H8765) Pestilence H1698 blood...
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“When I shall send on them the hurtful arrows of famine, which are
for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and I will increase
the famine on you and will break your staff of bread, and I wi...
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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...
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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...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s
dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 17:25; Deuteronomy 32:24; Exodus 23:29; Ezekiel 14:15;...
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Bereave thee — Of your children, friends, and your own life.
Pestilence and blood — Thy land shall be the common road for
pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished
presently, in...