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

“ Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. ”

Ezekiel 5:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have set it in the midst of the nations - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both...
Ezekiel 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Lord GOD . Adonai Jehovah, As in Ezekiel 2:4 This is Jerusalem . Compare Ezekiel 4:1 .
Ezekiel 5:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Now God shows the reason why he determined to act so severely and harshly towards that holy city which he had selected as the royal residence. For the greater the benefits with which he had ado...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations - I have...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

This is Jerusalem— "This Jerusalem, against which thou prophesiest, was placed in the midst of the heathen nations. It made a figure among them on account of my temple, and the tokens of my presenc...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. This is Jerusalem - not the mere city, but the people of Israel g...
Ezekiel 5:5 - 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 5:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I have set it in the midst of the nations. — This was eminently true of Jerusalem, and of Israel as represented by Jerusalem, in all the ages of its history. It constituted one of the great oppor...
Ezekiel 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus saith the Lord God, this [is] Jerusalem ,.... A type or sign of it; it may refer to both the former and latter type. It is the city of Jerusalem that is designed by the city portrayed upon the...
Ezekiel 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her. Ver. 5. This is Jerusalem, ] i.e., This head and beard so to be...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thus saith the Lord, This is Jerusalem Here the explication of the foregoing type is given, namely, that the hair to be shaved off signified Jerusalem, which was to be destroyed. I have set it in...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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

Thus saith the Lord God: this solemn declaration in God's name the prophet useth by express order, Ezekiel 3:11 . This portrayed city's typically Jerusalem, and her inhabitants. I have place...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Guilt and Future Judgment Is Spelled Out. ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she has reb...
Ezekiel 5:5 - 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 5:5 - 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 5:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations. Jerusalem in the midst of the nations Jerusalem was designed to have a good influence upon the nations and countries round about, a...
Ezekiel 5:5 - 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 5:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem, the exalted city of the Lord's habitation; I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her, the center of the true worsh...
Ezekiel 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:4 ; Deuteronomy 4:6 ; Ezekiel 16:14 ; Ezekiel 4:1 ; Jeremiah 6:6 ; Luke 22:19 ; Luke 22:20 ; Micah 5:7 ; Matthew 5:14
Ezekiel 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

This is Jerusalem — This portrayed city, is typically Jerusalem. The midst — Jerusalem was set in the midst of the nations, to be as the heart in the body, to invigorate the dead world with a divin...

Ezekiel 5:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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

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

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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

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

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

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 5:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Ezekiel 5:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 5:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes