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Verse Ezekiel 21:4. _FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH_] The whole land
shall be ravaged from one end to the other....
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THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED - take the place of “every green tree
and every dry tree” Ezekiel 20:47; “all faces” that of “all
flesh:” to show the universality of the destructions. National
judgment i...
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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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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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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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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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Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against
all flesh from the south to the north:
THEREFORE SHALL MY SWORD...
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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 RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED. — This explains _the green tree_ and
_the dry_ of Ezekiel 20:47; and “all flesh” of Ezekiel 21:4,
corresponds to “all faces” of the same. These expressions are
meant to s...
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_[Ezekiel 21:9]_ יַ֛עַן אֲשֶׁר ־הִכְרַ֥תִּי
מִמֵּ֖ךְ צַדִּ֣יק...
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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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_North, including all the country belonging to Israel._...
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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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SEEING THEN THAT I WILL CUT OFF FROM THEE THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE
WICKED,.... Some by the sword, some by famine, some by pestilence, and
others by captivity; and, upon the whole, none spared, but the la...
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Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against
all flesh from the south to the north:
Ver. 4. _Seeing then that I...
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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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The Sword of the Lord....
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Seeing, then, that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the
wicked, the Lord having the external aspect of His visitation upon
Judah in mind, therefore, in fulfillment of this object, SHALL MY
S...
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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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I WILL CUT OFF; it is both my purpose and threat, to do that by the
Chaldeans in such manner as that it shall appear I did it. THE
RIGHTEOUS, signified by the green tree, EZEKIEL 20:47. THE WICKED; th...
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Ezekiel 21:4 Because H3282 off H3772 (H8689) righteous H6662 wicked
H7563 sword H2719 out H3318 (H8799) sheath...
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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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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:3 The RIGHTEOUS AND WICKED correspond to
the “green” and “dry” trees of Ezekiel 20:47. Here God
predicts a judgment that will come on t
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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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Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 6:11; Ezekiel 7:2...
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All flesh — All the Jews that dwell in the land....