“ Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.a ”
Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fir...
Thou shalt also take of them a few in number, and bind them in thy (c) skirts. (c) Meaning, that a very few would be left, which the Lord would preserve among all these storms, but not without troub...
(D) The Fate of the Besieged. Yet the last symbol is perhaps the most terrible of all; it suggests the all but irretrievable completeness of the destruction. Ezekiel is commanded to take a sharp sw...
It is now added: Thou shalt take then a small number, and bind them, (that is, that number, but the number is changed,) viz., those hairs of which the number is small in the skirts of thy...
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Take—a few—and bind, &c.— Hereby is prefigured the remnant of the Jews who should be left in the land under Gedaliah; and in the next verse the destruction which should come upon them also. S...
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
A few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. — A small remnant of the people was still left in the land after the great captivity ( 2 Kings 25:22 ); but even of these some were to perish by violen...
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...
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...
The type is very expressive, and full to the purpose. And if we consider the judgment here spoken of spiritually, (and no doubt it was so intended), the head and the hair, represent Christ and his Ch...
Thou shall also take thereof a few in number ,.... These are they that were left in the land of Judea by Nebuzaradan, for vinedressers and husbandmen, and such as returned out of Egypt into the land...
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts. Ver. 3. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number. ] A remnant is still reserved, "that the Lord God may dwell among m...
Thou shall burn a third part in the midst of the city In the midst of that portraiture of the city, which the prophet was commanded to make, chap. Ezekiel 4:1 . This signified the destruction of t...
The Representation of Jerusalem's Ruin. B. C. 594. 1 And thou, son of man, take thee a s...
Thereof, i.e. of the last third which were to be dispersed. A few, or small quantity. In number; or, by number, as them in thy skirts; as men tie up in a handkerchief, or in the skirt of thei...
“And you will take from there a few in number, and bind them in your robes, and of these again you will take and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From there will come...
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 5:1 . 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...
Take thee a sharp knife. God’s judgments upon the wicked 1. Wicked men are of little worth; take a whole city of them, they are of no more account with God than a little hair of the head or bea...
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...
The Sign Itself
1 Peter 4:18 ; 2 Kings 25:12 ; Jeremiah 39:10 ; Jeremiah 40:6 ; Jeremiah 52:16 ; Luke 13:23 ; Luke 13:24 ; Matthew 7:14
Take — Of the last third. Bind — As men tied up in the skirt of their garment what they would not lose: to signify the small remnant.