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Verse Ezekiel 33:26. _YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD_] Ye live by plunder,
rapine, and murder. Ye are every way impure; and shall ye possess the
land? No....
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The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant
that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against
presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23; then he
tu...
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II. PREDICTIONS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (33-48)
Chapter S 33-34
A. The Watchman, the False Shepherds, and the True Shepherd
_ 1. The renewed call of Ezekiel as watchman (Ezekiel 33:1) _...
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NEED OF A DEEPENED SENSE OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (EZEKIEL 33), and
this alike for himself and his hearers.
EZEKIEL 33:1. He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they
are responsible for...
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YE: i.e. Ye [men]. The verb is masculine.
YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD. Ye take your stand (first occurrence Genesis
18:8; Genesis 18:22), [leaning] upon, &c. The posture assumed by
necromancers waiting...
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The confirmation by the fugitives of all his previous predictions gave
the prophet boldness to speak anew, and what he says is but a
continuation of that which he had said before, and had been so
lite...
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_stand upon your sword_ Hardly means, the footing on which ye deal
with men is the sword; but probably, ye occupy yourselves with the
sword, cf. Ezekiel 44:24.
_work abomination_ The term is mostly ap...
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YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD— _You stand in your highway,_ or _the
corners of the streets, and commit your abominations._ Houbigant. This
expression seems to refer to their public and open profession of
i...
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C. The Fall of Jerusalem and Further Prophecies
33:21-29
TRANSLATION
(21) And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, the
tenth month, the fifth day of the month, the fugitive from Jerus...
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Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every
one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD - your dependence is not on right and
equity, b...
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§ 1. THE RESTORATION (EZEKIEL 33-39)
After an introductory passage (Ezekiel 33:1), and two short prophecies
against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles
(Ezekiel 33:21), this sect...
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THE PROPHET, THE SURVIVORS, AND THE EXILES
In Ezekiel 24:27 it was announced to Ezekiel that the silence which
began with his wife's death and the siege of Jerusalem would be ended
when fugitives from...
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עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם עַֽל ־חַרְבְּכֶם֙
עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ן תֹּועֵבָ֔ה וְ...
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THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN
Ezekiel 33:1
ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the
Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity
with which in the East in...
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Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen
nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities
of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of dan...
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Ye stand upon your (o) sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every
one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
(o) As they that are ready still to shed blood....
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_Swords, thinking to live thereby, (Genesis xxvii. 40.) and to be
secure. But I will disarm you. The pestilence shall find out those in
the rocks, ver. 27._...
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By comparing what the Prophet Jeremiah, in his history of the Church
hath recorded, with what is here written, we discover that it was a
whole year, and more, from the destruction of Jerusalem to Ezek...
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In chapter 33, in view of these judgments, which put His people on
entirely new ground (for they were judged as Loammi, with the nations,
and this is why the prophecy can look on to the last days, alt...
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Ver. 26 YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD,.... You trust in it, and think to
support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it
by that means. So the Targum,
"you stand in your strength:''...
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Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one
his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ver. 26. _Ye stand upon your sword._] _Vivitur ex rapto._ He that hath
the...
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_Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord_ Remove from them this destructive
carnal confidence, and show them what they do, and how far they are
from being Abraham's genuine seed. _Ye eat with the blood_ Wh...
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Ye stand upon your sword, depending upon the forceful application of
what they desired, YE WORK ABOMINATION, by committing base crimes
without a show of regard for God's will, AND YE DEFILE EVERY ONE...
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THE RELATION OF THE PEOPLE TO EZEKIEL...
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21-29 Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence
upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in
the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct...
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YE STAND UPON YOUR SWORD; you trust to your sword, and stand with it
as it were drawn ready to kill and slay, you do all with violence and
force, not regarding what is right and equal, and fear no res...
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Ezekiel 33:26 rely H5975 (H8804) sword H2719 commit H6213 (H8804)
abominations H8441 defile H2930 (H8765) one...
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“Wherefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘You eat with
the blood and lift up your eyes to idols, and shed blood. And shall
you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abomination...
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CONTENTS: Ethical instructions for the captivity. Rebuke to those who
are not sincere in their professions.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Abraham.
CONCLUSION: God warns sinners of the wrath to come that...
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Ezekiel 33:2. _If the people of the land take a man and set him for
their watchman;_ and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when
the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to di...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:1 After the Fall of Jerusalem. Following
the central collection of foreign-nation oracles, the focus returns to
Judah (or “the house of Israel,” as Ezekiel usually calls it)...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:23 Ezekiel addresses those left in Judah
after its fall. The Judeans’ logic of arguing (v. Ezekiel 33:24)
from God’s blessings to the one
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 33:25 YOU EAT FLESH WITH THE BLOOD. The
Hebrew is literally “you eat over the blood,” a saying used also
in Leviticus 19:26. The ref
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EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2. “SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF THY
PEOPLE.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again.
The early portion of the chapte...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 33:1
If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own
prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a
sense of relief, to his own special work as t...
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Now as we get into chapter 33 God now begins to instruct those
captives who are in Babylon.
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them,
When I bring the sword upon a land, if t...
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1 Kings 11:5; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Samuel 2:30; Deuteronomy 29:18;...
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Ye stand — You trust to your sword; you do all with violence.
Abominations — Idolatry....