Ezekiel 21:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. ”

Ezekiel 21:17 - 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....
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I will also smite , &c. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
Ezekiel 21:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it .
Ezekiel 21:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said it. I will also smite mine hands together. Yahweh Himself smites His hands together, doing what H...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will also smite my hands together ,.... As well as the prophet was bid to do, Ezekiel 21:14 , either expressing a concern for the calamity of the people, or indignation at their sins: or rather a...
Ezekiel 21:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will also smite mine hands together, and I will cause my fury to rest: I the LORD have said [it]. Ver. 17. I will also smite mine hands together. ] As animating the enemy and rejoicing at thy ru...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Predicted. B. C. 592. 8 Again the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying, ...
Ezekiel 21:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Smite mine hands together, in token of my approbation and well-pleasedness in those executions which the Chaldeans shall finish against you; those hands, that were used to restrain and check, shall...
Ezekiel 21:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“I also will smite my hands together, and I will satisfy my fury, I Yahweh have spoken it.” In Ezekiel 21:14 it was Ezekiel who smote his hands at what was to be. Here it is Yahweh Himself. For th...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 21:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sword of the Lord.
Ezekiel 21:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:63 ; Ezekiel 16:42 ; Ezekiel 21:14 ; Ezekiel 22:13 ; Ezekiel 5:13 ; Isaiah 1:24 ; Numbers 24:10 ; Zechariah 6:8
Ezekiel 21:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Smite my hands — In token of my approbation.

Ezekiel 21:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 21:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 21:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 21:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 21:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 21:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 21:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 21:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 21:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 21:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 21:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 21:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes