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Ezekiel 21:15

I have set the point of the sword against all their gates that their heart may faint and their ruins, literally, "their stumbling-blocks," that is, the occasions for them to fall by the sword, be multiplied. Ah! it, the sword, is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter, sharpened and drawn for the fray, for the bloodshed. With this in mind, the sword is directly addressed.

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See also Ezekiel 21:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 21:15. _WRAPPED UP_] It is not a blunt sword, it is carefully sharpened and preserved for the slaughter....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism. Ez...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEIR RUINS. the overthrown. So the Septuagint and Syriac. Compare Jeremiah 18:23. BRIGHT. bright as lightning. WRAPPED UP keen, or sharp....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the point of the sword_ Or, the GLITTER, lit. whirl or swing. Others by changing a letter would read "slaughter," which Frd. Del. (Baer, _Ezek_.) by comparison of Assyr. considers the word to mean as...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The destroying sword of the Lord. The violent agitation of the prophet at the thought of the coming destruction finds expression in a wild and irregular ode upon the sword of the Lord. The general sen...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IT IS WRAPPED UP FOR THE SLAUGHTER— _It is sharpened for the slaughter._ Houbigant, and so the Chaldee. God addresses the sword in the next verse....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Song of the Sword 21:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (9) Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also poli...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter. I HAVE SET THE POIN...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    21:15 glittering, (f-27) Or 'as lightning,' so vers. 10,28. whetted (g-30) Others read 'drawn.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    POINT] RM 'consternation.' RUINS] RV 'stumblings.' WRAPPED UP] RV 'pointed.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (8-17) This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8 corresponding to 2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14 to Ezekiel 21:6. In several of its clauses modern criticism has been able to improve the t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE POINT. — The Hebrew word occurs only here. The marginal rendering comes nearer its sense, but the exact meaning is the glance or the whirl of the sword. The glancing or the whirling motion of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Ezekiel 21:20]_ לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָ מ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ready. Literally, "covered," ( amicti. Haydock) in the scabbard, and quite new and sharp._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This seems to be another sermon to the same amount as the former. The Lord directs His servant to continue his alarming message, and again and again to cry concerning the sword of the Lord's slaughter...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE SET THE POINT OF THE SWORD AGAINST ALL THEIR GATES,.... The word rendered "point" is nowhere else used, and is differently translated: by some the "fear" of the sword z, as Menachem and Kimchi;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that [their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is] made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter. Ver. 15. _Ah!...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 21:14 ; EZEKIEL 21:17. _Prophesy, and smite thy hands together_ In token of amazement and sorrow. _And let the sword be doubled the third time_ Bishop Newcome reads, _Bring the sword twice; ye...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    POINT: Or, glittering, or fear WRAPPED: Or, sharpened...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The Lord hath gathered them together round about Jerusalem, with their swords sharpened and drawn at every gate to slay whosoever attempt to come out, or to slay all they meet with when they take the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 21:15 set H5414 (H8804) point H19 sword H2719 gates H8179 heart H3820 melt H4127 (H8800) stumble...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A VIVID PICTURE OF THE SEVERITY OF THE JUDGMENT. “You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time (or ‘be doubled, yes tripled'), the sw...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:8 This oracle uses the image of a sharpened sword. Verses Ezekiel 21:8 focus on the nature of the sword itself, honed to razor sharpness. Verses...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:14, EZEKIEL 21:17 As in Ezekiel 6:11, to clap your hands

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES. (Ezekiel 21:8.) The sword is sharpened for slaying. As they are a people who refuse to understand, the judgment is announced in the plainest terms. Ezekiel 21:9. “AND ALSO FURBISHED....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 15:7; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 21:10; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezeki

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    All their gates — Both of cities, of palaces, and of private houses. Wrapt up — And hath been carefully kept in the scabbard, that it might not be blunted....

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