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See also Ezekiel 21:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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....

  • 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

    SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach,_ App-9. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. See note on Ezekiel 2:4....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR THE TIDINGS— _Because tidings shall come, at which every heart,_ &c. _Behold, they draw near, and it shall come to pass,_ &c. Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Ezekiel 21:12]_ וְ הָיָה֙ כִּֽי ־יֹאמְר֣וּ אֵלֶ֔יךָ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Melt. Literally, "decay," Josue vii., &c. --- Knee. Chap. vii. 17. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Sword of the Lord....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHALL BE WEAK AS WATER: _ Heb._ shall go into water...

  • 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

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 21:7 say H559 (H8799) sighing H584 (H8737) answer H559 (H8804) news H8052 comes H935 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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.

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • 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

    1 Peter 4:7; 2 Kings 21:12; 2 Samuel 17:10; Deuteronomy 20:8; Ex

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Because — The saddest news you ever heard is coming....

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