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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 21:12

Verse Ezekiel 21:12. Smite - upon thy thigh.] See on Jeremiah 31:19. So HOMER, Il. xv. ver. 113: -

Ὡς εφατ'· αυταρ Αρης θαλερω πεπληγετο μηρω

Χερσι καταπρηνεσσ,ολοφυρομενος δε προσηυδα.

"She spake; and, with expanded arms his thighs

Smiting, thus sorrowful the god exclaimed."

COWPER.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IT: i.e. the sword of Jehovah, the king of Babylon. PRINCES. leaders. BE. come. TERRORS BY, &c.. who shall be delivered to the sword with My People. SMITE THEREFORE, &c. This was the symbol of gri...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh. TERRORS...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CRY.. HOWL.. SMITE] tokens of Ezekiel's excited sympathy with God's justice. TERRORS.. UPON MY PEOPLE] RV 'they' (the princes) 'are delivered over to the sword with my people.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Ezekiel 21:17]_ זְעַ֤ק וְ הֵילֵל֙ בֶּן ־אָדָ֔ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Cry and wail, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: (k) smite therefore upon [thy] thigh. ...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fled, with Sedecias, by night. --- Thigh, in surprise and grief, ver. 17._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CRY, HOWL, SON OF MAN,.... Not only sigh, but cry; and not cry only, but howl; signifying hereby that this would be the case of the Jews when these calamities should come upon them; and, in order to a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon [thy] thigh._ Ver...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Cry and howl, son of man, namely, from fear and grief; FOR IT SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE, IT SHALL BE UPON ALL THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL; TERRORS BY REASON OF THE SWORD SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE, the sword of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TERRORS, BY REASON OF THE SWORD, SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE: Or, they are thrust down to the sword with my people...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CRY, as one in great distress; nay, how unseemly soever it may appear, howl, that they may by this know what sorrows are coming on them, and how they, like wild beasts taken in the toils and girts, sh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 21:12 Cry H2199 (H8798) wail H3213 (H8685) son H1121 man H120 people H5971 princes H538

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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