Ezekiel 21:26 - Exposition

Remove the diadem, etc. The noun is used throughout the Pentateuch ( e . g . Exodus 28:4 ; Exodus 37:1-29 :39; Le Exodus 8:9 ; Exodus 16:4 ) for the "turban" or "mitre" of the high priest, and Keil so takes it here, as pointing to the punishment of the priest as well as of the king. This shall not be the same; literally, this shall not be this ; or, as the Revised Version paraphrases, this shall be no more the same ; i . e . the mitre and the crown shall alike pass away—taken from their unworthy wearers. There was to be, as in the following words, a great upturning of all things; the high brought low, the lowly exalted.