Ezekiel 5:5

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

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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...
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. Jer...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Lord GOD . Adonai Jehovah, As in Ezekiel 2:4 This is Jerusalem . Compare Ezekiel 4:1 .
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....
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:...
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...
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 Jerusal...
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 sie...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This ] the city depicted on the tile ( Ezekiel 4:1-3 ). In the midst of the nations ] God gave Jerusalem a great opportunity of displaying His righ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Jerusale...
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...
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 Jerusa...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of Jerusalem; The Punishment of Jerusalem. B. C. 594....
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 typica...
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,...
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 procee...
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 tw...
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 influ...
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 Levit...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Interpretation of the Sign
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 t...

⁵ 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.

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 5:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 5:5