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Verse Ezekiel 21:5. _IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE._] That is, till all
the work that I have designed for it is done. Nor did it; for
Nebuchadnezzar never rested till he had subdued all the lands from...
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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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IT SHALL NOT RETURN, &c.: i.e. until it has executed its mission....
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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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Ezekiel 21:1-5. These verses, though still figurative, are plainer
than the preceding, of which they furnish the explanation. The sword
of the Lord is drawn finally from its sheath, to which it shall...
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I—HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD— The sword of the Lord was
Nebuchadrezzar; who, after having executed the Lord's judgments upon
his people, lived above twenty years. The meaning is, that this sword
should...
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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...
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_THAT ALL FLESH MAY KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD OUT
OF HIS SHEATH: IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE — _i.e.,_ until it has fully
accomplished its purpose. Other judgments upon Israel had been
arrested in mercy — the sword had been returned to the scabbard
while its work...
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_[Ezekiel 21:10]_ וְ יָֽדְעוּ֙ כָּל ־בָּשָׂ֔ר
כִּ֚י...
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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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_Back, (ver. 30.) without doing execution, Jeremias l. 9. (Calmet)_...
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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...
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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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THAT ALL FLESH MAY KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE DRAWN FORTH MY SWORD OUT
OF HIS SHEATH,.... The same with kindling a fire in Judea,
Ezekiel 20:48:
IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE; that is, into its sheath...
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That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out
of his sheath: it shall not return any more.
Ver. 5. _Have drawn forth my sword._] And put it in commission; not to
return till t...
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_Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem_ Here God directs the
prophet to declare in plain language, what he had ordered him to speak
allegorically, from the 46th to the 48th verses of the foregoing...
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that all flesh may know that I, the Lord, have drawn forth My sword
out of his sheath, to accomplish this sweeping overthrow, this fearful
catastrophe; IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE, it must perform it...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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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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That they that smart and suffer may see and own God in their just
sufferings, they that see and hear it may confess God's doings herein.
IT SHALL NOT RETURN ANY MORE: in EZEKIEL 20:48 it is expressed...
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“Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the
wicked, therefore will my sword go forth out of its sheath against all
flesh from the south to the north. And all flesh shall know that...
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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 21:1 The opening words directly correspond
with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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1 Kings 9:7; 1 Samuel 3:12; Deuteronomy 29:24; Ezekiel 20:48;...
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Shall not return — It shall not return into the scabbard 'till it
hath done full execution....