Ezekiel 5:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. ”

Ezekiel 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Execute judgments - As upon the false gods of Egypt Exodus 12:12 ; Numbers 33:4 .
Ezekiel 5:8 - 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 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold . Figure of speech Asterismos, App-6.
Ezekiel 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Now follows the threat, that God was prepared to take vengeance. Behold, I, even, I, am against you The particle גם , gam, “even,” is used as we in French say, yea, even: I, even I. We...
Ezekiel 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. Behold I, even I - awfully emphatic. I, eve...
Ezekiel 5:8 - 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 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

In the sight of the nations. — The conspicuousness of Israel’s position (see under Ezekiel 5:5 ) made it necessary that the punishment for their failure to keep God’s law should be as public as th...
Ezekiel 5:8 - 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 5:8 - 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 5:8 - 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 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, behold, even I, [am] against thee ,.... Or, "behold, I [am] against thee, even I" u; who am the Lord God omnipotent, great King, and a dreadful one; and a terrible...
Ezekiel 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, [am] against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. Ver. 8. Behold, I, even I, am against thee. ]...
Ezekiel 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore, because ye multiplied more than the nations Their multiplying, in the common sense of the word, was a blessing promised to them, and could not be alleged against them as a crime; therefo...
Ezekiel 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 594. 5 Thus saith the Lord...
Ezekiel 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Therefore; it is very just what God doth, he hath cause more than enough given him to do so. Behold; take notice, and consider me, not as now for you, but against you. You look to the instruments...
Ezekiel 5:8 - 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 5:8 - 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 5:8 - 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 5:8 - 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 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation of the Sign
Ezekiel 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:8 ; 1 Kings 9:9 ; Deuteronomy 29:20 ; Deuteronomy 29:23-28 ; Ezekiel 15:7 ; Ezekiel 21:3 ; Ezekiel 25:2-6 ; Ezekiel 26:2 ; Ezekiel 26:3 ; Ezekiel 28:22 ; Ezekiel 29:6 ; Ezekiel...

Ezekiel 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge