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Verse Ezekiel 21:7. _WHEREFORE SIGHEST THOU?_] The prophet was a
_sign_ unto them. His sighing and mourning showed them how _they_
should act.
_ALL KNEES SHALL BE WEAK_ AS _WATER_] Ezekiel 7:17....
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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...
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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...
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SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach,_ App-9.
SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. See note on Ezekiel
2:4....
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Agitation of the prophet at the tidings of the coming calamity. This
agitation of his is only a symbol of the dismay and paralysis that
shall overtake all when the calamity comes. On the figures in Ez...
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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...
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_it cometh_ i.e. the overwhelming disaster. The words, "and … to
pass" are wanting in LXX....
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FOR THE TIDINGS— _Because tidings shall come, at which every heart,_
&c. _Behold, they draw near, and it shall come to pass,_ &c.
Houbigant....
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III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT
20:45-21:32
In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter
21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the
Authorized Version an...
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And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?
that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spir...
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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...
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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 21
* This chapter describes how the king of Babylon and his...
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_[Ezekiel 21:12]_ וְ הָיָה֙ כִּֽי ־יֹאמְר֣וּ
אֵלֶ֔יךָ...
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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...
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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...
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And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why sighest thou? that thou
shalt answer, (e) For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart
shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit sh...
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_Melt. Literally, "decay," Josue vii., &c. --- Knee. Chap. vii. 17.
(Haydock)_...
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It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding
chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face
toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that
t...
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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...
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AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN THEY SAY UNTO THEE, WHEREFORE SIGHEST THOU?....
Which he was to do that purpose, that they might be put upon asking
him the reason of it; whether it was on his own personal amoun...
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_And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?
that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every
heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spir...
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_Sigh, therefore, with the breaking of thy loins_, &c. Show all the
tokens of grief and concern; sigh and groan deeply; let the sense of
these impending judgments so greatly affect thee, as to make th...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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And it shall be when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that
thou shalt answer, For the tiding, because it cometh, because the
message contained in the evil tidings would be fulfilled; AND EV...
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SHALL BE WEAK AS WATER:
_ Heb._ shall go into water...
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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...
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This directs the prophet what account to give them, when they shall,
as they certainly will, inquire what he meaneth by such unusual
sorrows. Is it any private misery that makes thee sigh thus, or doe...
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Ezekiel 21:7 say H559 (H8799) sighing H584 (H8737) answer H559 (H8804)
news H8052 comes H935 ...
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“Sigh, therefore, you son of man. You will sigh with the breaking of
your loins and with bitterness before their eyes. And it will be when
they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?', that you will say, ‘Beca...
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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...
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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...
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_Wherefore sighest thou?_
.. .For the tidings.
SIGHING BECAUSE OF SORROWFUL TIDINGS
“The tidings” were, in the first place, of dishonour done to God,
and, in the second place, of ruin which the tra...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond
with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:6 These verses seem to continue
describing the destruction of both “righteous and wicked” (see
note on vv. 3–4). The GROAN and BREAKING HEART of v.
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THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED
JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21).
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the
mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
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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
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CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21.
THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD.
THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed,
should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
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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...
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1 Peter 4:7; 2 Kings 21:12; 2 Samuel 17:10; Deuteronomy 20:8; Ex