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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Ezekiel 21:25-27

Here the Lord speaks personally to the King of Israel, and a very awful address it is. But, what I beg the Reader more immediately to observe is, the promise of One coming, whose right the crown and diadem of Israel is, and of the royal dignity being lost until His coming. And who could this point to but Christ? Thrice the Lord declares the overturning of his people in this verse, as if to show what a degraded state the children of Israel should be reduced to before Christ's coming.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 21:25. _AND THOU PROFANE WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL_] Zedekiah, called here _profane_, because he had broken his oath; and _wicked_, because of his opposition to God and his prophet. _WHOS...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The third word of judgment. The king of Babylon’s march upon Judaea and upon the Ammonites. Destruction is to go forth not on Judah only, but also on such neighboring tribes as the Ammonites (compare...

  • 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

    PROFANE. pierced through: i.e. deadly wounded ONE. Zedekiah. type of the future Antichrist. Compare Revelation 13:3. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha._ App-44. x, INIQUITY... AN END. Figure of speec...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _profane wicked prince_ Or, AND THOU WICKED ONE, WHO ART TO BE SLAIN, PRINCE OF ISRAEL. The sense "profane" is not quite certain, cf. _fem_., Leviticus 21:7; Leviticus 21:14. _when iniquity … an end_...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    He who is, or who wields, the sword, the king of Babylon. The verses furnish the interpretation of the preceding passage. The prophet is commanded to represent a way which parts into two ways. At the...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE— _Thou therefore, pierce that wicked prince of Israel,_ &c. The address is made to the sword to destroy Zedekiah, whom the prophet calls _wicked_ chiefly with respect t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Sword of the King of Babylon 21:18-27 TRANSLATION (18) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (19) Now as for you, son of man, make for yourself two ways, that the sword of the king of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE - as having desecrated by idolatry and perjury his office as the Lord'...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PROFANE WICKED] RV 'O deadly wounded wicked one.' Zedekiah is addressed....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PROFANE. — The prophet now turns from the people as a whole to the individual prince at their head. The word for _“_profane” is the same as is translated “slain” in Ezekiel 21:14; it would be better r...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Ezekiel 21:30]_ וְ אַתָּה֙ חָלָ֣ל רָשָׁ֔ע נְשִׂ֖יא...

  • 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

    And thou, profane wicked (u) prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end, (u) Meaning, Zedekiah who practised with the Egyptians to make himself high and able to resist the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thou profane, &c. He speaks to king Sedecias, who had broken his oath, and was otherwise a wicked prince. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "Criminal, (sentenced to die) wicked," &c. (Calmet)_...

  • 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

    AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL,.... Meaning Zedekiah, the then reigning prince; who is so called, because he had profaned or violated the oath and covenant he made with the king of Babylon,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity [shall have] an end, Ver. 25. _And thou profane._] Or, Worthy to be wounded to death. _ Wicked prince._] Zedekiah, who now...

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

    _And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel_ The words are directed to Zedekiah, whom the prophet calls _profane_ and _wicked_, chiefly with respect to his breaking that solemn oath, uttered in the nam...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, Zedekiah, who had desecrated his office as the Lord's anointed by idolatry and perjury, WHOSE DAY IS COME, the day of his punishment, WHEN INIQUITY SHALL HAV...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-27 By the Spirit of prophecy Ezekiel foresaw Nebuchadnezzar's march from Babylon, which he would determine by divination. The Lord would overturn the government of Judah, till the coming of Him wh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Then; Zedekiah. PROFANE; tainted with secret deep irreligious opinions, whence he despised God and his oath, and profaned the name of God. Prince: so much was his royal dignity lessened, that indeed h...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 21:25 profane H2491 wicked H7563 prince H5387 Israel H3478 day H3117 come H935 (H8804) H6256 iniquity...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And you, Oh wicked one marked for death (literally ‘Oh slain wicked one'), the prince of Israel whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end, thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘Remove the turba...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:18 In v. Ezekiel 21:11 the sword was committed to the “hand of the slayer,” identified here as THE KING OF BABYLON. Ezekiel performs

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:24 Now that God has given the sword to the Babylonian king, judgment on Jerusalem is announced. The “wicked” PRINCE OF ISRAEL must be Zedekiah....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 21:23. Though this announcement of God’s judgments will appear to the people of Judea as a deceptive divination, yet it will surely come to pass. The prophet, however, sees...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:13; Ezekiel 17:19; Ezekiel 21:29; Ezekiel 30:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And thou — Zedekiah. Whose day — The day of sorrows, and sufferings, and punishment is at hand. Shall have an end — Shall bring the ruin of king and kingdom, and with the overthrow of your state, the...

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