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Ezekiel 5:5-17

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

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 5:5. _THIS IS JERUSALEM: I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE_ _NATIONS_] I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both natu...

  • 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

    THE LORD GOD. Adonai Jehovah, As in Ezekiel 2:4 THIS IS JERUSALEM. Compare Ezekiel 4:1....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _This is Jerusalem_ Or, _this Jerusalem_I set it! (Exodus 32:1; Ezekiel 40:45). Jerusalem is placed emphatically at the head of the sentence; the thoughts which the name suggests are then developed in...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THIS IS JERUSALEM— "This Jerusalem, against which thou prophesiest, was placed in the midst of the heathen nations. It made a figure among them on account of my temple, and the tokens of my presence....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER FIVE PROPHETIC DISCOURSES 5:5-7:27 The three discourses in Chapter s 5-7 are related in that they elaborate on the symbolism of Ezekiel 5:1-4. However, each of these discourses has its own di...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. THIS IS JERUSALEM - not the mere city, but the people of Israel genera...

  • 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

    THIS] the city depicted on the tile (Ezekiel 4:1). IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS] God gave Jerusalem a great opportunity of displaying His righteousness and truth to the world. Her position, near the hi...

  • 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 ‘

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE SET it IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS. — This was eminently true of Jerusalem, and of Israel as represented by Jerusalem, in all the ages of its history. It constituted one of the great opportunit...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֔ה זֹ֚את יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם...

  • 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

    _Midst, distinguished above the rest. Many have supposed that the city was in the exact middle of Palestine, or of the world, Psalm lxxiii. 12. (Calmet)_...

  • 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

    Now God shows the reason why he determined to act so severely and harshly towards that holy city which he had selected as the royal residence. For the greater the benefits with which he had adorned th...

  • 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

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, THIS [IS] JERUSALEM,.... A type or sign of it; it may refer to both the former and latter type. It is the city of Jerusalem that is designed by the city portrayed upon the til...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her. Ver. 5. _This is Jerusalem,_] _i.e., _ This head and beard so to be s...

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

    _Thus saith the Lord, This is Jerusalem_ Here the explication of the foregoing type is given, namely, that the hair to be shaved off signified Jerusalem, which was to be destroyed. _I have set it in t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem, the exalted city of the Lord's habitation; I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS AND COUNTRIES THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT HER, the center of the true worship,...

  • 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

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD: this solemn declaration in God's name the prophet useth by express order, EZEKIEL 3:11. THIS portrayed city's typically Jerusalem, and her inhabitants. I HAVE placed her in a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 5:5 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Jerusalem H3389 set H7760 (H8804) midst H8432 nations...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM'S GUILT AND FUTURE JUDGMENT IS SPELLED OUT. ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she has rebell...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations._ JERUSALEM IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS Jerusalem was designed to have a good influence upon the nations and countries round about, and w...

  • 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 10:4; Deuteronomy 4:6; Ezekiel 16:14; Ezekiel 4:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This is Jerusalem — This portrayed city, is typically Jerusalem. The midst — Jerusalem was set in the midst of the nations, to be as the heart in the body, to invigorate the dead world with a divine l...

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