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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:16

The evil arrows of famine - Famine and pestilence are represented as poisoned arrows, inflicting death wherever they wound. The ancients represented them in the same way. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:17

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee - Wild beasts always multiply in depopulated countries. In England, wolves abounded when the country was thinly peopled, it is now full of inhabitants, and there is not one wolf in the land. Nebuchadnezzar and his Chaldeans may be called here evil beasts. He is often compared to a lion, Jeremiah 4:7 ; Daniel 7:14 ; on account of the ravages made by him and his Chaldean armies. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:11

Verse 11 Here God again expresses more clearly why he was so eager to take vengeance namely, because the religion of the Jews was corrupt, and the Temple had been violated, as we shall see to-morrow. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:12

Verse 12 Now he explains without a figure what he had previously proposed figuratively. For he had been commanded to shave off the hairs of his head and of his beard with a razor, and to divide them so that the pestilence should consume one part, the sword another, and the famine a third. Now he repeats the same thing but in another manner. Hence God explains why he had offered a vision of this kind to his servant. But he shortens what we formerly saw, because he omits the fourth member; for he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:13

Verse 13 In this verse the Prophet only teaches what he had said before, but by way of confirmation, namely, that God’s vengeance would be horrible and unceasing until the destruction and extinction of the people. There are some who think that this was interposed that God might mitigate the rigor of his vengeance, and so this verse, according to them, contains a promise of pardon; but it is rather a threat. For what they assert — that God would cause his anger to cease — cannot stand. For it... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:14

Verse 14 He explains what we saw before more at length, whence also we understand that in the next verse God had not softened his anger, but proclaimed the ultimate destruction of the nation. He says therefore, that the Jews shall be desolate, as they translate it: it also signifies dryness, and hence is the name for a desert. But it suits this place to say, the Jews shall be laid waste, and a reproach among the nations: for they were formerly a celebrated nation: God had ennobled them with... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:15

Verse 15 He further explains how the Jews should be devastated and become a reproach among the nations. Now, he does not speak of their dispersion, but uses two words for one idea: he puts חרפה, cherepheh, which signifies a reproach, and adds גדופה , gedopheh, which signifies a taunt and a mocking: but this could not take place without the slaughter of the people. Unless the profane heathen had some ground for it, there was no reason why they should utter their taunts and hissings against the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:16

Verse 16 He illustrates the sentiment which we have seen, but not after the manner of rhetoricians, who affect splendor and ornament of speech; but his only design was to penetrate the minds of the people, like stones or iron. This, then, is the reason why he uses such variety here, and adorns his teaching with various figures. For he now compares God to an archer, who points his arrows against them; but he speaks metaphorically concerning the arrows of God; for he calls them arrows of famine... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:17

Verse 17 Here God speaks generally concerning certain adversities — I will send evil upon them, he says, but immediately afterwards he adds the kind of evil, of which he had not yet spoken. Hence, under the name of evil he embraces all adversities, as if he had said that he intended to exact the penalty from the wicked, not in one or two ways only, but by those numberless troubles which surround us, and to which we are subject; so that there would be no bounds to his wrath, unless men should... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-17

Pre-eminent privilege, perversity, and punishment. "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem," etc. In these and some succeeding verses we have the interpretation of the symbolism of the previous part of the chapter; or "an authoritative commentary on the preceding allegory." The text presents to our notice— I. A POSITION OF PRE - EMINENT PRIVILEGE . "Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:17

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:11

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:15

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-17

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