“ Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
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 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...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
Again, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Either this is a new prophecy of another sword, distinct and different from that of the Chaldeans, even of the sword of the Romans, as Cocceius thi...
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 8. Again the word. ] See on Ezekiel 18:1 .
Judgments Predicted. B. C. 592. 8 Again the word of the L ORD came unto me, saying, ...
This I suppose is a further explication of what was said already of the sword God draweth out against them; with a further direction or command how the prophet should note out the nearness of the evi...
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...
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 21:2 . 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...
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...
The Sword of the Lord.