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Verse Ezekiel 21:15. _WRAPPED UP_] It is not a blunt sword, it is
carefully sharpened and preserved for the slaughter....
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The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The
passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the
form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism.
Ez...
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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...
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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...
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THEIR RUINS. the overthrown. So the Septuagint and Syriac. Compare
Jeremiah 18:23.
BRIGHT. bright as lightning.
WRAPPED UP keen, or sharp....
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_the point of the sword_ Or, the GLITTER, lit. whirl or swing. Others
by changing a letter would read "slaughter," which Frd. Del. (Baer,
_Ezek_.) by comparison of Assyr. considers the word to mean as...
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Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord
The passage Ezekiel 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time
to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of
Nebu...
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The destroying sword of the Lord. The violent agitation of the prophet
at the thought of the coming destruction finds expression in a wild
and irregular ode upon the sword of the Lord. The general sen...
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IT IS WRAPPED UP FOR THE SLAUGHTER— _It is sharpened for the
slaughter._ Houbigant, and so the Chaldee. God addresses the sword in
the next verse....
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B. The Song of the Sword 21:8-17
TRANSLATION
(8) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (9) Son of man,
prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword is
sharpened and also poli...
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their
heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright,
it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
I HAVE SET THE POIN...
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21:15 glittering, (f-27) Or 'as lightning,' so vers. 10,28. whetted
(g-30) Others read 'drawn.'...
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POINT] RM 'consternation.' RUINS] RV 'stumblings.'
WRAPPED UP] RV 'pointed.'...
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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...
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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...
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THE POINT. — The Hebrew word occurs only here. The marginal
rendering comes nearer its sense, but the exact meaning is the glance
or the whirl of the sword. The glancing or the whirling motion of the...
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(8-17) This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8
corresponding to 2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14 to Ezekiel 21:6. In several of
its clauses modern criticism has been able to improve the t...
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_[Ezekiel 21:20]_ לְמַ֣עַן ׀ לָ מ֣וּג לֵ֗ב וְ...
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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...
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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...
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_Ready. Literally, "covered," ( amicti. Haydock) in the scabbard, and
quite new and sharp._...
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This seems to be another sermon to the same amount as the former. The
Lord directs His servant to continue his alarming message, and again
and again to cry concerning the sword of the Lord's slaughter...
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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...
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I HAVE SET THE POINT OF THE SWORD AGAINST ALL THEIR GATES,.... The
word rendered "point" is nowhere else used, and is differently
translated: by some the "fear" of the sword z, as Menachem and Kimchi;...
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that
[their] heart may faint, and [their] ruins be multiplied: ah! [it is]
made bright, [it is] wrapped up for the slaughter.
Ver. 15. _Ah!...
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Ezekiel 21:14 ; EZEKIEL 21:17. _Prophesy, and smite thy hands
together_ In token of amazement and sorrow. _And let the sword be
doubled the third time_ Bishop Newcome reads, _Bring the sword twice;
ye...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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I have set the point of the sword against all their gates that their
heart may faint and their ruins, literally, "their stumbling-blocks,"
that is, the occasions for them to fall by the sword, be mult...
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POINT:
Or, glittering, or fear
WRAPPED:
Or, sharpened...
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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...
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The Lord hath gathered them together round about Jerusalem, with their
swords sharpened and drawn at every gate to slay whosoever attempt to
come out, or to slay all they meet with when they take the...
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A VIVID PICTURE OF THE SEVERITY OF THE JUDGMENT.
“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together,
and let the sword be doubled the third time (or ‘be doubled, yes
tripled'), the sw...
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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...
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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...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:8 This oracle uses the image of a
sharpened sword. Verses Ezekiel 21:8 focus on the nature of the sword
itself, honed to razor sharpness. Verses...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:14, EZEKIEL 21:17 As in Ezekiel 6:11, to
clap your hands
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EXEGETICAL NOTES. (Ezekiel 21:8.) The sword is sharpened for slaying.
As they are a people who refuse to understand, the judgment is
announced in the plainest terms.
Ezekiel 21:9. “AND ALSO FURBISHED....
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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
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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...
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Ezekiel 15:7; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 21:10; Ezekiel 21:22; Ezeki
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All their gates — Both of cities, of palaces, and of private houses.
Wrapt up — And hath been carefully kept in the scabbard, that it
might not be blunted....