Ezekiel 5:17 - Exposition

Evil beasts , etc. These appear in like connection in Ezekiel's favourite textbooks (comp. Le Ezekiel 26:6 , 22; Deuteronomy 32:24 ). They reappear in Ezekiel 14:15 , Ezekiel 14:21 . Historically, we have an example of the suffering thus caused in the lions of 2 Kings 17:25 , when towns and villages were deserted, and the unburied carcases of those who had died by famine, or pestilence, or the sword, were everywhere to attract them from afar. This was, of course, the natural and inevitable result. Pestilence and blood, etc. As this is followed by the work of the sword, "blood" probably points to some special form of plague, possibly dysentery ( Acts 28:8 , Revised Version), or carbuncles, like Hezekiah's boil ( Isaiah 38:21 ). The same combination appears in Ezekiel 14:19 ; Ezekiel 28:23 .