Ezekiel 5:3,4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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 fire. Such was the fate of those left behind after the destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 40; Jeremiah 41. The whole prophecy is one of denunciation.

Ezekiel 5:4

Thereof - Or, from thence, out of the midst of the fire. Omit “For.”

Ezekiel 5:3-4

3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.a

4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.