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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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I WILL MAKE THEE WASTE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:31;
Leviticus 26:32). App-92,...
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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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_reproach among the nations_ Lamentations 2:15-16, "All that pass by
clap their hands at thee, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter
of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that they called the...
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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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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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D. The Results of the Judgment 5:13-15
TRANSLATION
(13) Then My anger shall end, and MY wrath I shall cause to rest in
respect to them and shall be comforted; and they shall know that I the
LORD have...
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Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations
that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
I WILL MAKE THEE ... A REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS. They whose
idolatri...
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Ezekiel, as a priest, was peculiarly sensitive about ceremonial
defilement....
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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 אֶתְּנֵךְ֙ לְ חָרְבָּ֣ה וּ לְ
חֶרְפָּ֔ה
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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 a. Septuagint, "and thy daughters (dependances. Calmet) round,"
&c. (Haydock)_...
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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 explains what we saw before more at length, whence also we
understand that in the next verse God had not softened his anger, but
proclaimed the ultimate destruction of the nation. He says therefore...
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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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MOREOVER I WILL MAKE THEE WASTE,.... That is, their land; which, being
without inhabitants, lay untilled; and so became barren and
unfruitful:
AND A REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS THAT [ARE] ROUND ABOUT...
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Moreover, I will make thee waste, so that the city would be changed to
a heap of ruins, AND A REPROACH AMONG THE NATIONS THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT
THEE, so that people everywhere would mock and deride her,...
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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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Judgments should empty the land of men that might till and manure it,
and so your fruitful land shall be turned and continued a waste and
desolate land. A REPROACH, JEREMIAH 24:9, JEREMIAH 29:18,22; a...
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Ezekiel 5:14 make H5414 (H8799) waste H2723 reproach H2781 nations
H1471 around H5439 sight H5869 by H5674 ...
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“Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the
nations who are round about you, in the sight of all who pass by. So
it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an
astonishm...
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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 Chronicles 7:20; 2 Chronicles 7:21; Deuteronomy 28:37; Ezekiel 22:4;...