Ezekiel 21:27 - Exposition

I will overthrow. The sentence of destruction is emphasized, after the Hebrew manner, by a threefold iteration ( Isaiah 6:3 ; Jeremiah 22:29 ). It shall be no more. The pronoun in both clauses probably refers to the established order of the kingdom and the priesthood. "That order," Ezekiel says, "shall be no more." Keil, however, takes the second "it"—the "this" of the Revised Version—as meaning the fact of the overthrow. That also was not final; all things were as in a state of flux till the Messianic kingdom hinted at in the next clause should restore the true order. Until he come whose right it is. The words contain a singularly suggestive allusion to Genesis 49:10 , where a probable interpretation of the word "Shiloh" is "he to whom it belongs;" or, as the LXX . gives it, τὰ ἀποκείμενα αὐτᾷ . The passage is noticeable as being Ezekiel's first distinct utterance of the hope of a personal Messiah. Afterwards, in Ezekiel 34:23 , it is definite enough.