Ezekiel 5:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: ”

• Ezekiel 5:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  When I shall send upon them the evil (h) arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I shall sand, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ). which : or, who. break your staff of bread, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:26 ). App-9...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He illustrates the sentiment which we have seen, but not after the manner of rhetoricians, who affect splendor and ornament of speech; but his only design was to penetrate the minds of the peop...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your sta...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your sta...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famines ,.... Either famine itself, which is as an arrow; it is taken out of the quiver of the Lord of hosts, and is shot by him; and moves swiftly whe...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for [their] destruction, [and] which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your st...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So it shall be an instruction to the nations They shall learn from such an example of vengeance to fear me, and be afraid of my judgments. When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine Ha...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 594.       5 Thus saith the Lord...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I shall send; it is a messenger that goes not till God sends, and ever goes when he sendeth; he sends cleanness of teeth. The evil arrows; either because thunder, tempests, locusts, blastings, &a...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “When I shall send on them the hurtful arrows of famine, which are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and I will increase the famine on you and will break your staff of bread, and I w...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Interpretation of the Sign

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• Ezekiel 5:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 6:25 ; Deuteronomy 32:23 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Ezekiel 14:13 ; Ezekiel 4:16 ; Isaiah 3:1 ; Lamentations 3:12 ; Leviticus 26:26 ; Psalms 7:13 ; Psalms 91:5-7

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