John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates ,.... The word rendered "point" is nowhere else used, and is differently translated: by some the "fear" of the sword F26 אבחת חרב "terrorem gladii", Munster, Pagninus, Montanus. , as Menachem and Kimchi; by others the "cry" of the sword, or of those that are slain with it, as Jarchi; and the Targum paraphrases it, "those that slay with the sword:' some, as both Jarchi and Kimchi, observe, by an inversion of the letters... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 21:8-17
Here is another prophecy of the sword, which is delivered in a very affecting manner; the expressions here used are somewhat intricate, and perplex interpreters. The sword was unsheathed in the Ezek. 21:1-7; here it is fitted up to do execution, which the prophet is commanded to lament. Observe, I. How the sword is here described. 1. It is sharpened, that it may cut and wound, and make a sore slaughter. The wrath of God will put an edge upon it; and, whatever instruments God shall please to... read more