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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:2

Thou shalt burn with fire, etc. The symbolism receives its interpretation in Ezekiel 5:12 . A third part of the people (we need not expect numerical exactness) was to perish in the city of pestilence and famine, another to fall by the sword in their attempts to escape, yet another third was to be scattered to the far off land of their exile, and even there the sword was to follow them. The words, in the midst of the city, and the days of the siege , find their most natural explanation... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:3-4

Thou shalt also take, etc. The words may point read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 5:2

“The third part burnt in the midst of the city” represents those who perished within the city during the siege; “the third part smitten about it” (the city) “with” the sword, those who were killed about the city during the same period: “the third part scattered to the wind” those who after the siege were dispersed in foreign lands.In the midst of the city - The prophet is in exile, and is to do this in the midst of Jerusalem. His action being ideal is fitly assigned to the place which the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 5:3-4

Of the third part a few are yet to be taken and kept in the fold of the garment (representing those still to remain in their native land), and yet even of those few some are to be cast into the fire. Such was the fate of those left behind after the destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 40:0; Jeremiah 41:0. The whole prophecy is one of denunciation.Ezekiel 5:4Thereof - Or, from thence, out of the midst of the fire. Omit “For.” read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 5:2-4

Ezekiel 5:2-4. Thou shall burn a third part in the midst of the city In the midst of that portraiture of the city, which the prophet was commanded to make, chap. Ezekiel 4:1. This signified the destruction of the inhabitants within the city by famine and pestilence; for both famine and pestilence may be said to burn, as they make great havoc, and consume as fast as fire. Thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife To show that a third part of the inhabitants should be... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 5:1-17

Jerusalem destroyed (5:1-17)The last of this group of four acted parables was again concerned with the siege of Jerusalem. It dealt more specifically with the dreadful fate that awaited the citizens.Ezekiel shaved his hair, weighed it, then divided it into three equal parts. One part he burnt on his model city (the brick), symbolizing the death of one third of the city’s people through famine and disease. The second part he scattered around the model city, then chopped up the hair with a sword,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 5:2

in the midst of the city . Which he had graven on the brick See the signification in Ezekiel 5:12 , fulfilled = completed. Compare Ezekiel 4:8 . a = the. Compare Ezekiel 5:1 . in to. wind . Hebrew ruach. App-9 . draw out a sword , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33 ). sword . Same word as "knife" (vs Ezekiel 5:1 ). App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 5:4

the house of Israel . As in Ezekiel 4:3 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 5:2

Ezekiel 5:2. When the days of the siege are fulfilled— While the days of the siege shall continue: that is, of the visionary siege spoken of in the preceding chapter. This verse is fully explained by the 12th. read more