Ezekiel 21:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. ”

• Ezekiel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  it shall not return , &c.: i.e. until it has executed its mission.

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. It shall not return any more - That is, till all the work that I have designed for i...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I—have drawn forth my sword— The sword of the Lord was Nebuchadrezzar; who, after having executed the Lord's judgments upon his people, lived above twenty years. The meaning is, that this sword sho...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It shall not return any more — i.e., until it has fully accomplished its purpose. Other judgments upon Israel had been arrested in mercy — the sword had been returned to the scabbard while its wo...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath ,.... The same with kindling a fire in Judea, Ezekiel 20:48 : it shall not return any more ; that is, into its...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  That all flesh may know that I the LORD have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath: it shall not return any more. Ver. 5. Have drawn forth my sword. ] And put it in commission; not to return till...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem Here God directs the prophet to declare in plain language, what he had ordered him to speak allegorically, from the 46th to the 48th verses of the foregoin...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Threatenings against Israel; Judgments Predicted. B. C. 592.       1 And the word of the L ORD...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That they that smart and suffer may see and own God in their just sufferings, they that see and hear it may confess God's doings herein. It shall not return any more: in Ezekiel 20:48 it is exp...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore will my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. And all flesh shall know that...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The...

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - 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 21:5 - 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 21:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sword of the Lord.

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 9:7-9 ; 1 Samuel 3:12 ; Deuteronomy 29:24-28 ; Ezekiel 20:48 ; Ezekiel 21:30 ; Isaiah 45:23 ; Isaiah 55:11 ; Jeremiah 23:20 ; Nahum 1:9 ; Numbers 14:21-23

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• Ezekiel 21:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall not return — It shall not return into the scabbard 'till it hath done full execution.

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