Ezekiel 21:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine handse together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers. ”

• Ezekiel 21:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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....

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite (m) [thy] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, whi...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  smite thine hands together , &c.. sign of disappointment or grief in men. Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 24:10 ).

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And let the sword be doubled— Make the sword double, make threefold the sword of the slayers: it is the sword, the sword of the great slaughter, which shall turn them into fear. Houbigant. Kennic...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which e...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - 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 th...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (8-17) This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8-13 corresponding to 2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14-17 to Ezekiel 21:6-7 . In several of its clauses modern criticism has been able t...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  THE SWORD UNSHEATHED Ezekiel 21:1-32 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 divi...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - 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 it...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - 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 slaughte...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together ,.... As being in the greatest agony for what is coming upon thy people: or "strike hand to hand" y; clap them together, as enco...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite [thine] hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it [is] the sword of the great [men that are] slain, which...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ezekiel 21:14 ; Ezekiel 21:17 . Prophesy, and smite thy hands together In token of amazement and sorrow. And let the sword be doubled the third time Bishop Newcome reads, Bring the sword tw...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judgments Predicted. B. C. 592.       8 Again the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying,  ...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Smite thine hands together; either in token of amazement and sorrow, or else to signify what pleasure it should be to see justice executed on obstinate rebels; or rather, as Ezekiel 21:17 , clap...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Vivid Picture of the Severity of the Judgment. “You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time (or ‘be doubled, yes tripled'), th...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXEGETICAL NOTES. ( Ezekiel 21:8-17 .) 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...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 "so...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sword of the Lord.

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 20:30 ; 1 Kings 22:25 ; 2 Kings 24:1 ; 2 Kings 24:10-16 ; 2 Kings 25:1-7 ; Amos 9:2 ; Daniel 3:19 ; Ezekiel 21:17 ; Ezekiel 6:11 ; Ezekiel 8:12 ; Leviticus 26:21 ; Leviticus 26:24...

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• Ezekiel 21:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  And smite — In token of amazement and sorrow. Of the slain — Wherewith many shall be slain. Privy chambers — Where they were hidden in hope to escape.

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