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Verse Ezekiel 5:6. _SHE HATH CHANGED MY JUDGMENTS_] God shows the
reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the
surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad...
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THEY - The inhabitants of Jerusalem....
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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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CHANGED. rejected, or rebelled against. Compare Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel
20:13; Ezekiel 20:21; Numbers 20:24;...
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Read: AND SHE HATH REBELLED AGAINST MY JUDGMENTS TO DO WICKEDNESS MORE
THAN THE NATIONS, AND AGAINST MY STATUTES. "Judgments" is ordinances;
and "they" refers to the people, who compose Jerusalem....
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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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CHAPTER FIVE
PROPHETIC DISCOURSES
5:5-7:27
The three discourses in Chapter s 5-7 are related in that they
elaborate on the symbolism of Ezekiel 5:1-4. However, each of these
discourses has its own di...
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the
midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
THIS IS JERUSALEM - not the mere city, but the people of Israel
genera...
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5:6 ordinances (c-29) Or 'judgments;' so ch. 11.12; 'manner' in 2
Kings 17:26 ,2 Kings 17:33 . statutes, (d-35) _ choq_ , as Exodus
12:24 ....
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FORTY DAYS] the years of Judah's captivity and of Babylon's supremacy
(Ezekiel 29:11). The return of the exiles took place about 538 b.c.,
fifty-nine years after the first and forty-eight years after...
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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
V1 ‘
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CHANGED MY JUDGMENTS INTO WICKEDNESS. — Better, _hath wickedly
resisted my judgments,_ the sense adopted by most modern expositors.
MORE THAN THE NATIONS. — Not, of course, absolutely, but in
proporti...
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וַ תֶּ֨מֶר אֶת ־מִשְׁפָּטַ֤י לְ
רִשְׁעָה֙ מִן
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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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And she hath changed my (e) judgments into wickedness more than the
nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] around
her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they hav...
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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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He now adds, _My judgments are changed _concerning the word מרה,
_mereh_, I said that it signifies sometimes to change, but oftener to
transgress or to reject, and there the sense suits very well, bec...
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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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AND SHE HATH CHANGED MY JUDGMENTS INTO WICKEDNESS MORE THAN THE
NATIONS,.... So they changed their glory for that which did not
profit; and the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like
t...
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And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
nations, and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round
about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they
ha...
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_Thus saith the Lord, This is Jerusalem_ Here the explication of the
foregoing type is given, namely, that the hair to be shaved off
signified Jerusalem, which was to be destroyed. _I have set it in t...
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And she hath changed My judgments, the decrees of the Lord concerning
justice and righteousness, INTO WICKEDNESS MORE THAN THE NATIONS, the
people heaping upon themselves a greater guilt than the very...
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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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Ezekiel 5:6 rebelled H4784 (H8686) judgments H4941 wickedness H7564
nations H1471 statutes H2708 countries H776 around H5439
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JERUSALEM'S GUILT AND FUTURE JUDGMENT IS SPELLED OUT.
‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in
the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she
has rebell...
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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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1 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Kings 17:8; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 16:47;...
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More — More than the heathen....