Ezekiel 5:12

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 5:12

A third part of them shall die with the pestilence ,.... This, with what follows, explains the division of the hair into the three parts, and what was done with them; and shows that the burning of one third part denotes their being destroyed by the pestilence, mentioned along with burning coals, Habakkuk 3:5 ; and by famine, as follows: and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee ; and though there is no account of the former, yet there is of the latter; and no doubt... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 5:12

A third part of thee - See the note on Ezekiel 5:1-4 ; (note). 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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:11-17

The Divine Remonstrator. It is clear as daylight that the root sin of the Jews was unbelief. Although the prophets of Jehovah brought incontestable evidence that they spake in God's Name, and spake only words of truth, the people closed their ears, and treated the warning with contempt. They were in love with sin, and were resolved not to part from it. Proofs that God spake through the lips of these prophets were abundant. I. THERE WAS THE REPEATED ASSERTION OF HONEST ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 5:12

A third part of thee, etc. (see note on Ezekiel 5:2 ). The strange symbolic act is now interpreted. I will draw out a sword , etc. The phrase recurs in Ezekiel 12:14 , and is found in Le 26:33—an echo, like so many other passages in Ezekiel, from what seems to have been his favourite storehouse of thought and language (Leviticus 17-26.). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 5:12

The judgments Ezekiel 5:12-17 of “famine, pestilence,” and the “sword,” were precisely those which attended the coming siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 15:2 ff). The “drawing out the sword after them” indicates that the anger of God will follow them even to the land of their exile (compare Jeremiah 42:19-22; Leviticus 26:25), and that the horrors of the Babylonian siege are but the beginning of the sorrows of the nation. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 5:12-13

Ezekiel 5:12-13. A third part of thee, &c. In this verse is given an explication of what the burning of the hair, the smiting of it with a knife, &c., signified: see on Ezekiel 5:2. And I will draw out a sword after them My anger shall still pursue them, even into the countries whither they shall be banished and carried captives. As this was particularly fulfilled in those that went into Egypt, (see on Ezekiel 5:4,) so it has been remarkably verified in the several persecutions... 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

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