エゼキエル書 21:22 JCB

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 21:22

appoint captains = set up battering-rams. Compare Ezekiel 4:2 . the mouth in the slaughter = a hole by a breach. shouting = a war shout. and. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "and" in the text. a fort = a siege wall. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 21:21-22

Ezekiel 21:21-22. For the king of Babylon stood, &c.— For the king of Babylon stands, &c.—He casts lots by, blends or mingles the arrows; he inquires by images, he pours upon or pries into the liver or entrails. Ezekiel 21:22. On his right hand is the lot against Jerusalem, to appoint captains to open the mouth for slaughter. The method of divination by arrows is still in use among the Turks and idolatrous Arabs, and is thus well described by D'Herbelot: "The idolatrous Arabs used a... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 21:22

22. Rather, "In his right hand was [is] the divination," that is, he holds up in his right hand the arrow marked with "Jerusalem," to encourage his army to march for it. captains—The Margin, "battering-rams," adopted by FAIRBAIRN, is less appropriate, for "battering-rams" follow presently after [GROTIUS]. open the mouth in . . . slaughter—that is, commanding slaughter: raising the war cry of death. Not as GESENIUS, "to open the mouth with the war shout." read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:18-27

The model of the map 21:18-27 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:21-22

When the king of Babylon reached the fork in the road, he used pagan methods to determine which road he should take (cf. Isaiah 47:8-15). Belomancy involved writing various names on several arrows, mixing them in a quiver, and then drawing or throwing them out. The arrow chosen indicated the god’s selection. Teraphim were household idols that the pagans believed had connections with the spirits of departed ancestors who could communicate with them (necromancy). Hepatoscopy involved inspecting... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 21:1-32

3, 4. The righteous and the wicked] corresponding to the green tree and the dry in the parable (Ezekiel 20:47). In spite of his strict theory of retribution in Ezekiel 18, Ezekiel recognised the fact that good men as well as bad would perish in the siege of Jerusalem.10. It contemneth, etc.] RV ’The rod of my son, it contemneth every tree’ These words are almost hopelessly obscure, and the text is probably corrupt. As it stands, the meaning may be (a) that the rod (the sword) with which God... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 21:22

(22) At his right hand was.—This is too exactly literal. The sense is, into his right hand came the divination which determined his course towards Jerusalem. “Captains” should be as in the margin, battering. rams (see Ezekiel 4:2), for the siege of Jerusalem; the same word is so translated farther on in this verse. The remaining clauses portray the operations of the attack. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 21:1-32

Ezekiel 21:9-10 The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of reason. Blake. Reference. XXI. 9, 10. R. A. Suckling, Sermons Plain and Practical, p. 215. Ezekiel 21:26-27 After quoting these words, John Owen adds: 'One dissolution shall come upon the neck of another, until it all issue in Jesus Christ. "I will overturn it," saith God. "But men will set it up again." "I will overturn it... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 21:1-32

THE SWORD UNSHEATHEDEzekiel 21:1-32THE date at the beginning of chapter 20 introduces the fourth and last section of the prophecies delivered before the destruction of Jerusalem. It also divides the first period of Ezekiel’s ministry into two equal parts. The time is the month of August, 590 B.C., two years after his prophetic inauguration and two years before the investment of Jerusalem. It follows that if the Book of Ezekiel presents anything like a faithful picture of his actual work, by far... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 21:1-32

Ezekiel 21:1-32 . A solemn message is given to the prophet: “Behold I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.” It was to be a widespread judgment, against all flesh. Ezekiel was commanded to sigh with bitterness before their eyes and was to tell them the cause of his grief (Ezekiel 21:1-7 ). The sharpening of the sword of judgment is given in Ezekiel 21:8-17 . It was hanging over their heads, ready to strike at... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 21:22

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 21:21-22

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 21:22

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:18-27

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:21-22

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 21:1-32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 21:22

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 21:1-32

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 21:1-32

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 21:1-32

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