Ezekiel 33:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? ”

Ezekiel 33:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23-29 ; th...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ye stand upon your (o) sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? (o) As they that are ready still to shed blood.
Ezekiel 33:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Need of a Deepened Sense of Personal Responsibility (Ezekiel 33), and this alike for himself and his hearers. Ezekiel 33:1-9 . He feels that he is responsible for them, and that they are respo...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ye: i.e. Ye [men]. The verb is masculine. Ye stand upon your sword . Ye take your stand (first occurrence Genesis 18:8 ; Genesis 18:22 ), [leaning] upon, &c. The posture assumed by necroman...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? Ye stand upon your sword - Ye live by plunder, rapine, and murder. Ye are e...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ye stand upon your sword— You stand in your highway, or the corners of the streets, and commit your abominations. Houbigant. This expression seems to refer to their public and open profession o...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? Ye stand upon your sword - your dependence is not on right and equi...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

§ 1. The Restoration (Ezekiel 33-39) After an introductory passage ( Ezekiel 33:1-20 ), and two short prophecies against the wicked survivors of Jerusalem and the careless exiles ( Ezekiel 33:21-3...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ye stand upon your sword. — Not to engage in war, which cannot here be thought of, but to take part in individual crimes of violence.
Ezekiel 33:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROPHET A WATCHMAN Ezekiel 33:1-33 ONE day in January of the year 586 the tidings circulated through the Jewish colony at Tel-abib that "the city was smitten." The rapidity with which in th...
Ezekiel 33:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel next delivered a series of messages concerning the chosen nation. The first message described the function and responsibilities of the prophet under the figure of a watchman. In the day of da...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

By comparing what the Prophet Jeremiah, in his history of the Church hath recorded, with what is here written, we discover that it was a whole year, and more, from the destruction of Jerusalem to Eze...
Ezekiel 33:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ver. 26 Ye stand upon your sword ,.... You trust in it, and think to support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it by that means. So the Targum, "you stand in your strength:'...
Ezekiel 33:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land? Ver. 26. Ye stand upon your sword. ] Vivitur ex rapto. He that hath th...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Remove from them this destructive carnal confidence, and show them what they do, and how far they are from being Abraham's genuine seed. Ye eat with the blood W...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Message to Inhabitants of Judah; Rebuke to the Proud Jews. B. C. 587. 21 And it came t...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye stand upon your sword; you trust to your sword, and stand with it as it were drawn ready to kill and slay, you do all with violence and force, not regarding what is right and equal, and fear no...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Wherefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, ‘You eat with the blood and lift up your eyes to idols, and shed blood. And shall you possess the land? You stand on your sword, you work abominatio...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EZEKIEL’S COMMISSION RENEWED (Chap. 33) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 33:2 . “Speak to the children of thy people.” “The prophet turns from foreign nations to Israel again. The early portion of the...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 33:2 . If the people of the land take a man and set him for their watchman; and if he be asleep, and blow not the trumpet when the invading army approaches, all are agreed that he ought to...
Ezekiel 33:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 33:1 If we may think of Ezekiel as compiling and arranging his own prophecies, we may think of him as returning, with something like a sense of relief, to his own special...
Ezekiel 33:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Relation of the People to Ezekiel
Ezekiel 33:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:5-7 ; 1 Peter 4:3 ; 1 Samuel 2:30 ; Deuteronomy 29:18-23 ; Deuteronomy 4:25 ; Deuteronomy 4:26 ; Ezekiel 18:11 ; Ezekiel 18:12 ; Ezekiel 18:15 ; Ezekiel 18:6 ; Ezekiel 22:9-11 ;...
Ezekiel 33:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ye stand — You trust to your sword; you do all with violence. Abominations — Idolatry.

Ezekiel 33:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 33:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 33:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 33:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 33:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 33:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 33:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 33:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 33:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 33:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 33:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 33:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 33:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes