Ezekiel 21:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: ”

• Ezekiel 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the LORD . Jehovah. App-4. Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read Adonai. App-4. A sword ,. sword. Figure of speech Epizeuxis (App-6), for emphasis. a g...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: A sword, a sword - namely, of God ( Deuteronomy 32:41 ). The Chaldeans are His inst...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Son of man, prophesy and say, thus saith the Lord ,.... Deliver out the following prophecy in the name of the Lord: say, a sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished ; it is not only drawn ou...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: Ver. 9 A sword, a sword is sharpened. ] a Not only drawn, but sharpened, that it may w...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened The sword was unsheathed in the foregoing verses; here it is fitted to do execution, which the prophet is commanded to Lamentations 1 . It is sharpened , that i...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - 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 21:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  As if he pointed to it, crying out as one that suddenly seeth some dreadful sight. A mighty sword, or many; so the ingemination may imply the forces of Nebuchadnezzar and his confederates. Sharpened...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - 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 21:9 - 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 21:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Should we then make mirth? Mirth unreasonable in the unconverted I. Because they are under condemnation. The sword is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter. Sh...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - 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 21:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Sword of the Lord.

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 9:4 ; Deuteronomy 32:41 ; Deuteronomy 32:42 ; Ezekiel 21:15 ; Ezekiel 21:28 ; Ezekiel 21:3 ; Isaiah 27:1 ; Isaiah 34:5 ; Isaiah 34:6 ; Isaiah 66:16 ; Jeremiah 12:12 ; Jeremiah 15:2 ;...

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• Ezekiel 21:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Furbished — Made clean and bright.

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