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Verse Ezekiel 21:13. _BECAUSE_ IT IS _A TRIAL_] This will be a trial
of strength and skill between the Chaldeans and the Jews; and a
_trial_ of faith and patience to the righteous.
_AND WHAT IF_ THE...
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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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_Because it is a trial_ Or, for there is a trial. So accented the word
occurs again Isaiah 28:16, a stone of trial (tried stone). The word
might be read as a verb: for trial has been made. In any case...
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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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BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL— _Because_ [_this sword_] _hath been approved,
and the sceptre when it shall not spare it shall be no more, saith the
Lord God._ God foretels that the sceptre of Israel shall be...
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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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Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it
shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL - rather, 'For there is a trial' being made;
the sword of the Lord...
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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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WHAT IF _the sword_ CONTEMN EVEN THE ROD?] equally obscure with
Ezekiel 21:10. RV 'what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no
more? 'What if Judah in its pride shall be destroyed?...
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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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(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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BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL. — Here again the original is obscure from its
conciseness and abruptness, leading to great variety of
interpretation. Neither the text nor the margin of our translation is
quite...
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_[Ezekiel 21:18]_ כִּ֣י בֹ֔חַן וּ מָ֕ה אִם...
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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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Because [it is] a trial, (l) and what if [the sword] despise even the
rod? it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.
(l) Ezekiel moved with compassion thus complains fearing the
destruction of the k...
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_God. Perhaps you will say it is only a trial: but what will be your
sentiments, when you behold the king and his people led away? (Calmet)
--- Protestants, "Because it is a trial; and what if the swo...
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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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BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL,.... As all afflictions and calamities are,
especially to the people of God they try their faith and patience, and
every other grace; and also to wicked men, they try them, wheth...
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Because [it is] a trial, and what if [the sword] contemn even the rod?
it shall be no [more], saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 13. _Because it is a trial._] Sore and sharp; therefore cry and
howl, especially...
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_Cry and howl, son of man_ As a mark of the vehemence of thy grief.
_For it shall be upon my people_ Namely, the devouring sword; _upon
all the princes of Israel_ Both princes and people shall be invo...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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Because it is a trial, literally, "for a testing-out it is," AND WHAT
IF THE SWORD CONTEMN EVEN THE ROD? What if the despising scepter shall
not be? the power of Judah coming to an end before the adva...
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BECAUSE IT IS A TRIAL, AND WHAT IF THE SWORD CONTEMN EVEN THE ROD?:
Or, When the trial hath been, what then? shall they not also belong to
the despising rod?...
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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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It is a sore trial, therefore show all the signs of grief and sorrow;
or it may refer to what follows in the verse; thus, since this is the
exploration, or trial, which I make in so severe manner to b...
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Ezekiel 21:13 testing H974 (H8795) despises H3988 (H8802) scepter
H7626 says H5002 (H8803) Lord H136 GOD...
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“Cry and howl, son of man, for it (the sword) is against my people,
it is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to
the sword with my people. Smite therefore on your thigh. For the...
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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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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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2 Corinthians 8:2; Ezekiel 21:10; Ezekiel 21:25; Ezekiel 21:27; Jo
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If — But if the king and kingdom of Judah despise this trial, both
shall be destroyed and be no more....