Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 14 ; Jeremiah 15 is a remarkable parallel to this prophecy. Here, as elsewhere, Ezekiel is commissioned to deliver to the exiles the sa...
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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

if. bring. sword , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 26:25 ). See Ezekiel 5:17 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet now descends to the third kind of punishment. Hence God says, if he send a sword upon a land, he cannot be entreated so as not to...
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A Divine Principle and an apparent Exception As a rule when God punishes a land for its wickedness by such judgments as famine, wild beasts, sword...
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Certain of the elders of Israel now came to Ezekiel, evidently to hear what message he had to deliver to them. The word of the Lord revealed to him t...
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We have no difficulty in explaining sin as the cause of sorrow. The four sore judgments of God, famine, the sword, wild beasts, and pestilence, are a...
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Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land ,.... The land which had grievously sinned; the same land into which a famine should come, and through which...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Or [if] I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: Ver. 17. Or if I bring a s...
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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Destruction of the People Determined; The Variety of the Divine Judgment; A Remnant Preserved....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He is Lord of hosts, and hath the militia of all the world in his hand, the sword is the right of the King of kings. Bring a sword; raise war, and...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Or if I bring a sword on that land and say, ‘Sword, go through the land,' so that I cut off from it man and beast, though these three men were in it...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JUDAH AND JERUSALEM CANNOT CLAIM EXEMPTION FROM JUDGMENTS BECAUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS FEW THEREIN ( Ezekiel 14:12-23 ) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 14:1...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 14:1 . Then came certain of the elders of Israel, ex-judges and magistrates in Judea. They were all idolaters, yet they wished to know whe...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 14:1 As the result, probably, of the previous utterances, certain elders of Israel , i . e . of the exiles in Tel-Abib...
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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, in a third scourge, and say, Sword, go through the land, the figure being purposely strong in order to emphas...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 14:13 ; Ezekiel 21:3 ; Ezekiel 21:4 ; Ezekiel 21:9-15 ; Ezekiel 25:13 ; Ezekiel 29:8 ; Ezekiel 38:21 ; Ezekiel 38:22 ; Ezekiel 5:12...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

That land — What land soever it be.

¹⁷ Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:

Related Commentaries of Ezekiel 14:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ezekiel 14:17