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Verse Ezekiel 21:23. _TO THEM THAT HAVE SWORN OATHS_] To Zedekiah and
his _ministers_, who had bound themselves by the oath of the Lord to
be faithful to the Chaldeans, and to pay them the promised tr...
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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...
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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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THEM: i.e. Zedekiah and the rulers in Jerusalem. sworn oaths.
Referring to Zedekiah's reacherous breach of faith with the king of
Babylon. See Ezekiel 17:11.
INIQUITY. treachery. Hebrew. _'avdh_. App...
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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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IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS A FALSE DIVINATION— Houbigant renders this;
_But he_ [Nebuchadrezzar] _seems to them_ [the Jews] _as divining vain
things, as boasting empty execrations: Nevertheless he shall...
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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...
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And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to
them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the
iniquity, that they may be taken. AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS A FAL...
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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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AS A FALSE DIVINATION IN THEIR SIGHT. — The divination of the
Babylonians seemed false to the Jews, primarily, because they were
determined not to believe it; yet, doubtless, there was mingled with
th...
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_[Ezekiel 21:28]_ וְ הָיָ֨ה לָהֶ֤ם
_כִּ_†_קְסָם_† ־שָׁוְא֙ בְּ
עֵ֣ינֵיהֶ֔ם שְׁבֻעֵ֥י שְׁבֻעֹ֖ות
לָהֶ֑ם וְ הֽוּא
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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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And it shall be to them (s) as a false divination in their sight, to
them that have sworn oaths: (t) but he will call to remembrance the
iniquity, that they may be taken.
(s) Because there was a leag...
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_Vain. They shall think that Nabuchodonosor is wasting his time. ---
Sabbaths. Hebrew, "they have people who swear to them;" false
prophets, or the Egyptians, on whom they depend. Septuagint, "and
cou...
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Perhaps by the two ways is intended the double attack which the king
of Babylon made on Jerusalem and the chief city of the Ammonites; but
concerning which, as this scripture represents, he stood unde...
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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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AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS A FALSE DIVINATION IN THEIR SIGHT,....
That is, the Jews shall laugh at this divination as a vain thing, as a
Heathenish practice, and of which nothing would come; and eve...
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_And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to
them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the
iniquity, that they may be taken._
Ver. 23. _And it shall be to the...
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_And it shall be as a false divination to them that have sworn oaths_
That is, the Jews, when they shall hear of it, shall deride and
despise it as a vain, lying divination, and so shall consider
them...
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THE SWORD OF BABYLON UPON JUDAH AND UPON AMMON...
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TO THEM THAT HAVE SWORN OATHS:
Or, for the oaths made unto them...
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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 who...
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UNTO THEM; the Jews, who shall either not believe that Nebuchadnezzar
did so consult, or else that it is a vain, false, and lying
divination, which will delude him that believes it, but never hurt
the...
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Ezekiel 21:23 false H7723 divination H7080 (H8800) eyes H5869 sworn
H7650 (H8803) oaths H7621 bring H2142 iniquity H5771 remembrance H2142
(H8688) taken H8610 (H8736)
as a - Ezekiel 11:3, Ezekiel 12:...
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“And it will be to them as vain divination in their sight, who have
sworn solemn oaths to them (literally ‘oaths of oaths to them'). But
he brings iniquity to remembrance that they might be taken.”
T...
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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 21:18 In v. Ezekiel 21:11 the sword was
committed to the “hand of the slayer,” identified here as THE KING
OF BABYLON. Ezekiel performs another symbolic action (see ch. Ezekiel...
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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...
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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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1 Kings 17:18; 2 Chronicles 36:13; 2 Kings 24:20; 2 Kings 25:1;
Ezekiel 11:3; Ezekiel 12:22; Ezekiel 17:13; Ezekiel 21:24; Ezekiel
29:16;...
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Them — The Jews. That have sworn — Zedekiah, his princes, and
nobles, who swore allegiance to the king of Babylon, these perjured
persons will contemn all predictions of the prophet. He —
Nebuchadnezz...