エゼキエル書 21:6-7 JCB

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 21:1-17

Babylon’s terrifying attack (20:45-21:17)The usual way to travel from Babylon to Jerusalem was by a semi-circular route that avoided the Arabian desert by following the Euphrates River to the north-west then turning south towards Judah. (See map ‘Near East in the time of Jeremiah.) Ezekiel put himself in the position of the Babylonian army as it moved south into Judah, overrunning and destroying the country as an uncontrollable bushfire. None would escape its terror (45-48). But the people did... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 21:7

spirit. Hebrew. ruach, App-9 . saith the Lord GOD = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. See note on Ezekiel 2:4 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 21:6

Ezekiel 21:6. With the breaking of thy loins— With trembling or shivering of loins. The allusion seems to be to the pangs of a woman in child-birth. See Isaiah 21:3.Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 30:6. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 21:7

Ezekiel 21:7. For the tidings— Because tidings shall come, at which every heart, &c. Behold, they draw near, and it shall come to pass, &c. Houbigant. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 21:6

6. with the breaking of thy loins—as one afflicted with pleurisy; or as a woman, in labor-throes, clasps her loins in pain, and heaves and sighs till the girdle of the loins is broken by the violent action of the body ( :-). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 21:7

7. The abrupt sentences and mournful repetitions imply violent emotions. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:1-7

The interpretation of the parable 21:1-7 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 21:6-7

The Lord told Ezekiel to let the Jewish exiles among whom he lived witness his groaning, grief, and heartbreak as he delivered this message. When the people asked the prophet why he was so sad, he was to tell them that it was because of the coming judgment."The need for the action described in these verses suggests that Ezekiel’s oral presentation so far had failed to impress his audience. Since they would not be shocked, even by the reference to the righteous perishing with the wicked, a new... 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 21:6

(6) With the breaking of thy loins.—The loins were regarded as the seat of strength (Job 40:16); and the breaking of these, therefore, expresses entire prostration. Comp. Psalms 66:11; Psalms 69:23; Isaiah 21:3; Nahum 2:10. The prophet was to do this “before their eyes,” i.e., was in some way to express before them a sense of extreme dejection and prostration, such as should call forth the question and reply of the following verse. With the expression “Every heart shall melt” comp. Luke 21:26. read more