Ezekiel 20:45--21:32
word <01697> [Moreover.]
This is the beginning of another prophecy, and properly belongs to the following chapter.
turn <07760> [set.]
south ....... south <01870 01864> [toward.]
Towards Judea, which lay south of Mesopotamia, where the prophet now dwelt.
speak out <05197> [and drop.]
open scrub <03293> [the forest.]
The city of Jerusalem, as full of inhabitants as the forest is of trees.
start a fire <03341> [I will kindle.]
I will send war; and it shall destroy all ranks and characters of the people.
green <03892> [green.]
flaming <03852> [the flaming.]
Negev ....................................................... Negev <05045> [from the south.]
speak <04911> [Doth.]
Is it not his usual custom to deal in enigmas? His figures are not to be understood; we should not trouble ourselves with them. God therefore commands the prophet to declare, in the next chapter, the same things in the plainest terms, so that they should not complain of his parables.
turn <07760> [set.]
speak <05197> [and drop.]
land <0127> [against.]
draw <03318> [Behold.]
draw <03318> [will draw.]
righteous <06662> [the righteous.]
everyone <01320> [against.]
everyone <01320> [all.]
sheathed <07725> [it shall.]
groan ........ groan <0584> [Sigh.]
aching <07670> [with the.]
eyes <05869> [before.]
groaning <0584> [Wherefore.]
report <08052> [For the.]
heart ............ everyone <03820 07307> [and every.]
hand <03027> [all hands.]
limp <03543> [faint.]
urine <04325 03212> [weak as water. Heb. go into water.]
come ............................. coming <0935> [it cometh.]
sword ... sword <02719> [A sword.]
sharpened <02300> [sharpened.]
<04178> [it is furbished.]
<0176> [should.]
scepter .... son ..... despises ... tree <03988 07626 01121 06086> [it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. or, it is the rod of my son, it despiseth every tree.]
gave ................... giving <05414> [to give.]
moan <03213> [howl.]
delivered up to <04048 0413> [terrors by reason of the shall be upon my. or, they are thrust down to the sword with my. smite.]
This was an expression of deep affliction.
testing <0974> [Because, etc. or, When the trial hath been, what then? shall they not also belong to the despising rod? a trial.]
despises <03988> [contemn.]
declares <05002> [it shall.]
strike <05221> [smite.]
hands ...... strike <05221 03709> [hands together. Heb. hand to hand. let the.]
surrounding <02314> [entereth.]
slaughter <019> [point. or, glittering, or fear. against.]
hearts <03820> [that their.]
made <06213> [it is made.]
drawn <04593> [wrapped up. or, sharpened.]
Cut sharply <0258> [Go.]
Swing <07760> [either.]
left <08041> [or on the left. Heb. set thyself, take the left hand.]
<05221> [smite.]
rage <02534> [and I.]
Rabbah <07237> [Rabbath.]
[Rabbah. the defenced.]
king <04428> [the king.]
fork <0517> [parting. Heb. mother. to use.]
arrows <02671> [he made.]
Or, as the Vulgate, "he mingled his arrows:" "They wrote on several arrows," says Jerome, "the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots are drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on."
arrows <02671> [arrows. or, knives. images. Heb. teraphim.]
battering rams ................. battering rams <03733> [captains. or battering rams. Heb. rams.]
shout out <07311> [to lift.]
set up ................. set up <07760> [to appoint.]
<07723> [as a.]
sworn solemn <07650 07621> [to them that have sworn oaths. or, for the oaths made unto them.]
accuse <02142> [but.]
accuse <02142> [call.]
transgressions <06588> [your transgressions.]
taken <08610> [ye shall.]
profane <02491> [profane.]
day <03117> [whose.]
off <05493> [Remove.]
<01361> [exalt.]
total ruin <05754> [I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it. Heb. Perverted, perverted, perverted, will I make it.]
arrives <0935> [until.]
son ................ Ammonites <01121> [concerning the.]
sword ... sword <02719> [The sword.]
seeing <02372> [they see.]
place <05414> [to bring.]
day <03117> [whose.]
Return <07725> [Shall I cause it to return. or, Cause it to return.]
judge <08199> [I will.]
place ......... land <04725 0776> [in the.]
pour <08210> [pour.]
blow <06315> [I will blow.]
<01197> [brutish. or, burning. and skilful.]
fuel <0402> [for fuel.]
blood <01818> [thy blood.]
remembered <02142> [thou shalt be no.]
This prophecy against the Ammonites was fulfilled about five years after the taking of Jerusalem; and their name has utterly perished from the face of the earth.
Lord <03068> [for I.]
