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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-17

We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem. Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my body. The prophet's head, which was to be shaved, signified Jerusalem, which by the judgments of God was now to be stripped of all its ornaments, to be emptied of all its inhabitants, and to be set naked and bare, to be shaved with a razor that is hired, Isa. 7:20. The head of one that was a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

Thus saith the Lord God, this is Jerusalem ,.... A type or sign of it; it may refer to both the former and latter type. It is the city of Jerusalem that is designed by the city portrayed upon the tile; and the same is signified by the head of the prophet that was to be shaved; that being not only the chief city of Judea, but of the whole world, as follows: I have set it in the midst of the nations ; as the chief of them; and distinguished it from them by peculiar favours and blessings,... read more

Adam Clarke

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

This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations - I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to its geographical situation, as being equally in the center of the habitable world. But any point on a globe is its center, no matter where laid down; and it would not be difficult to show that even this literal sense is tolerably correct. But the point which is the center of the greatest portion of land that can be... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 5 Now God shows the reason why he determined to act so severely and harshly towards that holy city which he had selected as the royal residence. For the greater the benefits with which he had adorned the city, by so much the baser and grosser was their ingratitude. God recounts, therefore, his benefits towards Jerusalem, and that for the sake of reproving it. For if the Jews had embraced the blessing of God, doubtless he would have enriched them more and more with his gifts: but when he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

This is Jerusalem, etc. The strange acted parables cease, and we have the unfigurative interpretation. The words that follow point to the central position of Jerusalem in the geography, and therefore in the history, of the ancient East: Egypt to the south, Assyria and Babylon to the north, and in the nearer distance Moabites and Ammonites, and Edomites, and Phoenicians, and Philistines; to all of these Jerusalem might have been as a city set on a hill, as the light of the Gentiles. That had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

A central position. Jerusalem was in a central position. Palestine was in the wry midst of the nations. The highway between Assyria and Egypt ran through her territory. Seated on the shores of the Mediterranean, she was midway between the great empires of the East and the mysterious world of the West. England is now in a position like that of ancient Palestine, but with a much larger sweep of circumference. This island looks eastward to Europe and Asia, and it is in the highway from the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-6

Privileges abused. Himself an exile, and far from the city which was the glory of his nation and the seat of the worship of his God, Ezekiel nevertheless felt keenly and bitterly the reproach which was coming upon the metropolis, the ruin which the sins of her kings and her citizens had brought upon her, the forsaking of her God, her abandonment to her foes. Yet he would not question the justice discernible in these calamities. Jerusalem was her own enemy and her own destruction. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-10

Abused privilege produces condign punishment. This doctrine is repeated and emphasized in myriad forms. It is written, not in sand, but on rock, and written with a pen of steel. If the men of England do not read this lesson, the reason is evident—they are wantonly blind. I. WE HAVE HERE AN INSTANCE OF EMINENT PRIVILEGE . Jerusalem was placed in a most central position. What the heart is to the body, what the sun is to the solar system, Palestine was among ancient... 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

Albert Barnes

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

I have set it in the midst of the nations - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both natural and appropriate. Egypt to the south, Syria to the north, Assyria to the east and the Isles of the Gentiles in the Great Sea to the west, were to the Jew proofs of the central position of his land in the midst of the nations (compare Jeremiah 3:19). The habitation assigned to the chosen people... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

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

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:5-17

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

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