“ All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weakc as water. ”
That dreadful day, which would extinguish their political existence, would no less bring to an end all their social and commercial life. The proud blossoms of Judah would soon be smitten and withered...
He confirms the last sentence, that such should be the trembling, that those who were oppressed with all kinds of evil, dare not utter their complaints freely. He says, all hands should be lo...
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. All knees shall be weak as water - Calmet understands this curiously: La frayeur dont on sera saisi, fera qu'on ne pourra retenir so...
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. All knees shall be weak as water - literally, shall go (as) waters; incapable of resistance ( Joshua 7:5 ; Psalms 22:14 ; Is...
The Desolation of the Land of Israel This is a final message of doom upon the whole land ( Ezekiel 7:2 ). God's wrath against Israel's sin is relentless, and the judgment is inevitable and close a...
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...
The second denunciation dealt with the completeness of judgment. Its keynote was expressed in the words, "an end." The prophet declared that an end on the land and the people had been determined on,...
I include the whole under one reading for the sake of shortness. In these verses is contained, the effect which must always follow God's judgment. No rank, no state, no condition of man is exempt. Wh...
All hands shall be feeble ,.... No strength in them, to lay hold on weapons of war to defend themselves, or fight the enemy; no heart nor courage in them, to go forth and meet him; and even afraid t...
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water. Ver. 17. All hands shall be feeble. ] As after some grievous disease, or as in extreme cold weather, ye shall not be able to hand...
They that escape of them shall escape This might be more intelligibly rendered, There are of them who shall escape; that is, “Some few shall have the favour of escaping the common calamity, calle...
The Desolation of Israel. B. C. 594. 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and...
All hands with which they should hold the instruments of fortification, the weapons of war, the tools of working, and that should carry away their goods, that they shall not be able to work at the ra...
“All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be as weak as water. They will also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them and shame will be on all their faces and baldness on all t...
5. LAMENTATION OVER THE DESOLATED LAND (Chap. 7) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—In this chapter we have not so much an additional prophecy as a re-statement of principles and denunciations which had been alrea...
Ezekiel 7:2 . An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land. The end is come at once on the whole land of Judea and of Israel. The crown is fallen from the heads of David's house: they...
EXPOSITION Ezekiel 7:1 The absence of any fresh date, and the fact that it is simply tacked on to the previous chapter by the copulative conjunction, shows that what follows belongs to the...
The Ruin Accomplished
Ezekiel 21:7 ; Hebrews 12:12 ; Isaiah 13:7 ; Isaiah 13:8 ; Jeremiah 6:24