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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 5:15

Taunt — A very proverb among them. Instruction — Sinners shall learn by thy miseries, what they may expect from me.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BE. REPROACH AND. TAUNT, Sc. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:37, the words being different). App-92. UNTO. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "in", or...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _So it shall be_ So shall SHE BE, i.e. Jerusalem. The ancient versions, however, give: _and thou shalt be_. _an instruction_ i.e. a lesson of warning, cf. ch. Ezekiel 23:48, "that all women may be tau...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO IT SHALL BE, &C.— _And the reproach and the obloquy shall be a warning and an amazement,_ &c....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebuke...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    5:15 astonishment (f-14) Or 'desolation,' as ch. 33.28,29, where both words are used....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A partial mitigation of the symbol for the prophet's sake. The dung of domestic animals was often used as fuel, and does not seem to have defiled the food cooked upon it. Though the symbol was modifie...

  • 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 5 EZEKIEL CUTS AND DIVIDES HIS HAIR – EZEKIEL 5:1-4 V1 ‘

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְֽ הָ֨יְתָ֜ה חֶרְפָּ֤ה וּ גְדוּפָה֙ מוּסָ֣ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Scoff. Literally, "blasphemy;" which is here used improperly, to denote derision. (Worthington)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He further explains how the Jews should be devastated and become a reproach among the nations. Now, he does not speak of their dispersion, but uses two words for one idea: he puts חרפה, _cherepheh, _w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO IT SHALL BE A REPROACH AND A TAUNT,.... The subject of the reproaches and taunts of the enemy; see Jeremiah 24:9; this is repeated for the greater confirmation of it: AN INSTRUCTION; or "disciplin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that [are] round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebuk...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So it, Jerusalem, the former proud capital city, SHALL BE A REPROACH AND A TAUNT, AN INSTRUCTION, an example of warning to teach people a lesson, AND AN ASTONISHMENT UNTO THE NATIONS THAT ARE ROUND AB...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A REPROACH: see EZEKIEL 5:14. A TAUNT; a very proverb among men. AN INSTRUCTION; sinners like thee shall learn by thy miseries what they may expect from me, and they shall acknowledge Divine justice i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 5:15 reproach H2781 taunt H1422 lesson H4148 astonishment H4923 nations H1471 around H5439 execute H6213 (H8800

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Kings 9:7; Deuteronomy 29:24; Ezekiel 25:17;...

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