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Ezekiel 5:17

evil beasts The three great plagues often specified are, famine, pestilence and sword (ch. Ezekiel 14:13; Ezekiel 14:17; Ezekiel 14:19), to which a fourth is sometimes added, evil beasts (ch. Ezekiel 14:15; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 33:27; Ezekiel 34:25; Leviticus 26:22; Deuteronomy 32:24).

In the above verses the cumulative expressions are often wanting in LXX. e.g. Ezekiel 5:11 the words "and with all thine abominations." Differences of this kind do not affect the sense, and it is unnecessary to notice them in detail.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 5:17. _SO WILL I SEND UPON YOU FAMINE AND EVIL BEASTS, AND_ _THEY SHALL BEREAVE THEE_] Wild beasts always multiply in depopulated countries. In England, _wolves_ abounded when the count...

  • 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

    SO WILL. SEND, Sc, Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:22.Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:24), I WILL BRING THE SWORD, Re. Reference to Pentateuch ...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FAMINE AND EVIL BEASTS— That is, by a figure called by the Greeks εν δια δυοιν, _the hungry and the evil beast._ Instead of _blood,_ Houbigant reads death or mortality. REFLECTIONS.—1st, Jerusalem's...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. The Third Threat 5:16-17 TRANSLATION (16) When I send against them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction which I shall send against you to destroy you; and I shall increase famine up...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. SO WI...

  • 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...

  • 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

    וְ שִׁלַּחְתִּ֣י עֲ֠לֵיכֶם רָעָ֞ב וְ חַיָּ֤ה...

  • 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

    CHAPTER V. _ Beasts. They usually take possession of abandoned countries. (St. Jerome) --- The Chaldeans may also be meant, chap. xvii. 3._...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER! let us in the perusal of this Chapter, observe the gracious mercy of a Covenant God, who in the midst of judgments, will have his people regard his love. Hence the Prophet shall be...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here God speaks generally concerning certain adversities — _I will send evil upon them, _he says, but immediately afterwards he adds the kind of evil, of which he had not yet spoken. Hence, under the...

  • 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 WILL I SEND UPON YOU FAMINE, AND EVIL BEASTS,.... Famine is repeated for the further confirmation of it; and "evil beasts" are added, by whom are meant, not the Chaldeans, comparable to such; but l...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it]. Ver....

  • 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

    THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    so will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, Leviticus 26:22, AND THEY SHALL BEREAVE THEE; AND PESTILENCE, in various severe epidemics, AND BLOOD SHALL PASS THROUGH THEE, in slaughter by the Chalde...

  • 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

    EVIL BEASTS; Heb. _evil beast_: either the king of Babylon, which, like a ravenous and insatiable beast, tore and devoured all. Or, literally, lions, bears, &c., which are one of his four sore judgmen...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 5:17 send H7971 (H8765) famine H7458 wild H7451 beasts H2416 bereave H7921 (H8765) Pestilence H1698 blood...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “When I shall send on them the hurtful arrows of famine, which are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread, and I wi...

  • 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

    2 Kings 17:25; Deuteronomy 32:24; Exodus 23:29; Ezekiel 14:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bereave thee — Of your children, friends, and your own life. Pestilence and blood — Thy land shall be the common road for pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished presently, in...

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