Ezekiel 5:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. ”

Ezekiel 5:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Explanation of the Symbols. By the four preceding symbolical actions the doom has been made too terribly clear: the reason for it is now given. Jerusalem is the centre of the world, conspicuous ali...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the fathers shall eat , &c.. fathers shall eat, &c. (no Art.) Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:29 ; Deuteronomy 28:53 ).
Ezekiel 5:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He says, then, fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of you, and this was certainly fulfilled: for Jeremiah speaks of women, but he comprehends men also. ( Lamentations 4:10 .) For he sa...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the wi...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Symbolic Actions Representing Jerusalem's Siege and Captivity Ezekiel is commanded to perform four remarkable actions setting forth the coming siege withits hardships, and the approaching captivit...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1-17 - Ezekiel 7:1-27 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of abo...
Ezekiel 5:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this chapter we have the description of the last of the four signs. The prophet was commanded to take a sword, sharpened as a barber's razor, and therewith to cut off his hair and his beard. The h...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How often the Lord complains of his people in the Old Testament, that in their sins, they were more stupid and senseless than the idolatrous nations around them. Never was it known, that heathens cha...
Ezekiel 5:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee ,.... Which was long ago threatened by the Lord, and prophesied of by Moses, Leviticus 26:27 ; and was fulfilled at several times in th...
Ezekiel 5:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the wi...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The fathers shall eat the sons , &c. Fathers eating their children, and children their fathers, expresses the height of misery, and the most grievous famine. We have sufficient proof that such i...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 594. 5 Thus saith the Lord...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And this explains what is above threatened. No history I know of that does mention any thing like this; barbarous Indians sell one another, and some report (as I take it) that children among them unn...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because you are more turbulent than the nations which are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes nor have kept my ordinances, nor have done after t...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

The last methods of punishment symbolised and interpreted (chap. Ezekiel 5:1-17 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The requirements made of Ezekiel still proceed in his house. Already he has been a sign that Je...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:1 . Son of man, take thee a sharp knife a barber's razor. Clip thy hair, and shave thy beard. Then divide and subdivide the hair into twenty four parts, and take eight parts, precisely t...
Ezekiel 5:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 5:1 Take thee a barber's razor, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The f...
Ezekiel 5:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation of the Sign
Ezekiel 5:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 6:29 ; Amos 9:9 ; Deuteronomy 28:53-57 ; Deuteronomy 28:64 ; Deuteronomy 32:26 ; Deuteronomy 4:27 ; Ezekiel 12:14 ; Ezekiel 20:23 ; Ezekiel 22:15 ; Ezekiel 36:19 ; Ezekiel 5:12 ;...
Ezekiel 5:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Scatter — This was verified when they were fetched away, who were left at the departure of the besiegers, and when the very small remnant with Johanan fled into Egypt.

Ezekiel 5:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 5:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 5:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 5:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 5:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 5:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 5:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 5:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 5:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 5:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes