Darby's translation notes (1890)
Ezekiel 20:46
20:46 south, (d-9) Heb. Teman , Habakkuk 3:3 . south, (e-15) Heb. Darom . see Deuteronomy 33:23 . south (f-23) Heb. Negeb . see Joshua 10:40 . Same word at end of verse, and ch. 21.4.
20:46 south, (d-9) Heb. Teman , Habakkuk 3:3 . south, (e-15) Heb. Darom . see Deuteronomy 33:23 . south (f-23) Heb. Negeb . see Joshua 10:40 . Same word at end of verse, and ch. 21.4.
Verse Ezekiel 20:46. _SET THY FACE TOWARD THE SOUTH_] Towards _Judea_, which lay south from Babylon, or Mesopotamia, where the prophet then dwelt. _THE FOREST OF THE SOUTH FIELD_] The _city of Jerusa...
This paragraph is in the Hebrew text, Septuagint and Vulgate the beginning of Ezekiel 21 to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy delivered in a form which is there explained. It may, however, b...
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THE SOUTH. the _Negeb._ See note on Psalms 126:4. against: or, unto. Some codices read "toward". THE SOUTH FIELD: i.e. Judah and Jerusalem....
_the south_ Though the reference is to Judah and Jerusalem (Ezekiel 21:1-5), the term "south" hardly means the south of Palestine; rather the whole land of Palestine from the point of view of the prop...
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_[Ezekiel 21:2]_ בֶּן ־אָדָ֗ם שִׂ֤ים פָּנֶ֨יךָ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ...
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In this final section of the prophecies dealing with reprobation, the prophet in a series of messages set forth the righteousness thereof. In the seventh year of the reign of Jehoiachin, that is four...
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward (x) the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; (x) For Judah stood south from Babylon....
_Of the south. Jerusalem lay towards the south of Babylon, where the prophet then was, and is here called the forest of the south field, and is threatened with utter desolation. (Challoner) See chap....
This seems a new discourse, or, if it be not, it is only as a postscript to a letter. The former was delivered concerning the Church in Babylon, and this is directed concerning the people at Jerusalem...
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...
SON OF MAN, SET THY FORCE TOWARD THE SOUTH,.... The land of Judea, which lay south of Babylon, where the prophet now was, as Babylon lay north of that, Jeremiah 1:14 to set his face was to speak freel...
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop [thy word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field; Ver. 46. _Set thy face._] Prophesy freely and boldly against Jerus...
_Moreover, the word of the Lord_, &c. Here we have a new prophecy, with which Houbigant, following many learned commentators, begins the xxist chapter, and that very properly; for what is contained in...
THE PICTURE OF THE FOREST FIRE...
Son of man, set thy face toward the South, literally, toward the right hand, for the Jew always considered himself facing east, AND DROP THY WORD TOWARD THE SOUTH, in a constant dripping, more or less...
45-49 Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, as a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who bring not forth the fruits of righteousness. When He will ruin a na...
He was now in Babylon, north from Jerusalem, and being commanded to look toward the south, it is toward Jerusalem, and the land of Canaan. THY FACE; thy courage and undaunted mind, manifest in prophes...
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‘And the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, set your face towards the south (temana), and drop your word towards the south (darom), and prophesy against the forest of the country in the Ne...
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Now it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me (Ezekiel 20:1). Now this e...
Amos 7:16; Deuteronomy 32:2; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 4:7; Ezekiel 6:2;...
The south — Look toward Jerusalem, and the land of Canaan. Drop thy word — Let thy word distil, begin with softer words, before thou shower down with the vehemency of a storm. The forest — Jerusalem,...