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Verse Ezekiel 21:10. _IT CONTEMNETH THE ROD OF MY SON_] "It," the
sword of Nebuchadnezzar, "contemneth the rod," despises the power and
influence _of my son_-Israel, the Jewish people: "Out of Egypt h...
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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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MAKE. SORE SLAUGHTER. Figure of speech _Polyptbton_ (App-6), for
emphasis. Hebrew to slay. slaughter.
GLITTER. flash as lightning.
SHOULD WE THEN MAKE MIRTH? or, "should we flourish [the sceptre of...
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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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SHOULD WE THEN MAKE MIRTH— Houbigant reads, _That it may cast down
the sceptre of my son, sparing no wood:_ that is, "The sword of
Nebuchadnezzar shall overthrow, the power of the king of Judah, and
s...
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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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It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,
as every tree.
IT IS SHARPENED TO MAKE A SORE SLAUGHTER -...
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21:10 wood? (d-27) 'It despiseth the rod of my son as [all] wood.'...
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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
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This chapter describes how the king of Babylon and hi...
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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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_[Ezekiel 21:15]_ לְמַ֨עַן טְבֹ֤חַ טֶ֨בַח֙
הוּחַ֔דָּה לְמַעַן ־הֱיֵה ־לָ֥הּ
בָּ֖רָק מֹרָ֑טָּה אֹ֣ו נָשִׂ֔ישׂ
שֵׁ֥בֶט...
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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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It is sharpened to make a grievous slaughter; it is polished that it
may (f) glitter: should we then make mirth? it despiseth the (g) rod
of my son, (h) [as] every tree.
(f) And so cause fear.
(g) M...
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_My son. He speaks, according to St. Jerome, to the sword of
Nabuchodonosor; which was about to remove the sceptre of Israel, whom
God here calls his son. (Challoner) --- This title belonged to all
Is...
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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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IT IS SHARPENED TO MAKE A SORE SLAUGHTER,.... To cut easily, and wound
deeply, and make a slaughter of men, like beasts for sacrifice; a
sacrifice to the justice of God for their sins, and so acceptab...
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It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may
glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son,
[as] every tree.
Ver. 10. _Should we then make mirth?_] Not...
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_Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened_ The sword was unsheathed in the
foregoing verses; here it is fitted to do execution, which the prophet
is commanded to Lamentations 1. It is _sharpened_, that it m...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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IT CONTEMNETH THE ROD OF MY SON, AS EVERY TREE:
Or, it is the rod of my son, it despiseth every tree...
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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 a...
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TO MAKE A SORE SLAUGHTER; to slay many, and with as little regard as
men kill beasts, or to offer whole herds of wicked men in sacrifice to
the offended justice of God; much after this style both Davi...
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Ezekiel 21:10 Sharpened H2300 (H8717) dreadful H2874 slaughter H2873
(H8800) Polished H4178 (H8794) lightning H1300 Should H176 mirth H7797
(H8799) despises H3988 (H8802) scepter H7626 Son H1121 wood...
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THE SONG OF THE SWORD.
This song is intermingled with comments in prose and therefore its
original form is difficult to work out. It may well originally have
accompanied preparation for and march int...
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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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_Should we then make mirth?_
MIRTH UNREASONABLE IN THE UNCONVERTED
I. Because they are under condemnation. The sword is sharpened to make
a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter. Shoul...
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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 Ezekiel 21:14 describe its
l...
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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 three variants of
"south" are shown to...
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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 Samuel 7:14; Amos 6:3; Ecclesiastes 3:4; Esther 3:15; Ezekiel 19:11;
Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 21:25; Habakkuk 3:11; Isaiah 22:12;...
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Of my son — To whom God saith, Thou shalt break them with a rod of
iron, Psalms 2:9. This sword is that rod of iron, which despiseth
every tree, and will bear it down....