Ezekiel 5:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it. ”

Ezekiel 5:17 - 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 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

So will. send, Sc, Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:22 . Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ), I will bring the sword , Re. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:25 ). App-92. Compare...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here God speaks generally concerning certain adversities — I will send evil upon them, he says, but immediately afterwards he adds the kind of evil, of which he had not yet spoken. Hence, un...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it . So wi...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Famine and evil beasts— That is, by a figure called by the Greeks εν δια δυοιν, the hungry and the evil beast. Instead of blood, Houbigant reads death or mortality. REFLECTIONS.— 1st, Jerusa...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it....
Ezekiel 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts ,.... Famine is repeated for the further confirmation of it; and "evil beasts" are added, by whom are meant, not the Chaldeans, comparable to such; bu...
Ezekiel 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken [it]. Ver...
Ezekiel 5:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 594. 5 Thus saith the Lord...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Evil beasts; Heb. evil beast : either the king of Babylon, which, like a ravenous and insatiable beast, tore and devoured all. Or, literally, lions, bears, &c., which are one of his four sore...
Ezekiel 5:17 - 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...
Ezekiel 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - 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 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation of the Sign
Ezekiel 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 17:25 ; Deuteronomy 32:24 ; Exodus 23:29 ; Ezekiel 14:15 ; Ezekiel 14:19 ; Ezekiel 14:21 ; Ezekiel 17:21 ; Ezekiel 17:24 ; Ezekiel 21:3 ; Ezekiel 21:32 ; Ezekiel 22:14 ; Ezekiel 2...
Ezekiel 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bereave thee — Of your children, friends, and your own life. Pestilence and blood — Thy land shall be the common road for pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished presently,...

Ezekiel 5:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 5:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 5:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 5:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 5:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 5:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 5:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 5:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 5:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 5:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes