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Brenton's Septuagint

Ezekiel 21:1

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me again:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me:
New American Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
Amplified Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The word of ye Lord came to me againe, saying,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the word of the LORD came to me saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord said:
Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:
Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
So the word of the Lord came to me again. He said,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me.
Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The worde of the LORDE came to me, sayenge:
American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:
New King James Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
New Living Translation
Then this message came to me from the Lord :
New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me:
Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, now face Jerusalem and let the Message roll out against the Sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel. Say, ‘ God 's Message: I'm against you. I'm pulling my sword from its sheath and killing both the wicked and the righteous. Because I'm treating everyone the same, good and bad, everyone from south to north is going to feel my sword! Everyone will know that I mean business.'

Contextual Overview

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Therefore prophesy, son of man, set thy face steadfastly toward Jerusalem, and look toward their holy places, and thou shalt prophesy against the land of Israel, 3 and thou shalt say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and I will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and I will destroy out of thee the transgressor and unrighteous. 4 Because I will destroy out of thee the unrighteous and the transgressor, therefore so shall my sword come forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 and all flesh shall know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath: it shall not return any more. 6 And thou, son of man, groan with the breaking of thy loins; thou shalt even groan heavily in their sight. 7 And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to thee, Wherefore dost thou groan? that thou shalt say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, saith the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:14 - General Ezekiel 35:1 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and give thee a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him.
Genesis 17:19
And God said to Abraam, Yea, behold, Sarrha thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarrha shall bear to thee at this time, in the next year.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will return and come to thee according to this period seasonably, and Sarrha thy wife shall have a son; and Sarrha heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At this time I will return to thee seasonably, and Sarrha shall have a son.
Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the child from the place where he was, and an angel of God called Agar out of heaven, and said to her, What is it, Agar? fear not, for God has heard the voice of the child from the place where he is.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the child, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.
Exodus 3:16
Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.
Exodus 4:31
and the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshipped.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Upon the above excuse or complaint about speaking in parables; wherefore the prophet is ordered to speak in plainer language to the people. It is very probable that the prophet delivered the prophecy recorded in the latter part of the preceding chapter in the figurative terms in which he received it; and he here is bid to explain it to the people, or to repeat it to them in clearer expressions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The first word of judgment Ezekiel 21:1-7. Ezekiel speaks first to the people of Israel, shows the universality of the coming destructions, and indicates by a sign (that of sighing) the sadness of the calamity.

The words and order of words are identical with Ezekiel 20:45-46, except that for “south,” there are substituted:

(1) “Jerusalem;”

(2) “the holy place,” i. e., the temple and its various parts;

(3) “the land of Israel.”

No subterfuge is left for the people to pretend misunderstanding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

The prophet goes on to denounce the fate of Jerusalem and

Judea; using signs of vehement grief, to denote the greatness

of the calamity, 2-7.

He then changes the emblem to that of a sharp and bright sword,

still denoting the same sad event, 8-17;

and, becoming yet more explicit, he represents the king of

Babylon, who was to be employed by God in this work, as setting

out to take vengeance on both the Jews and the Ammonites, for

joining with Egypt in a confederacy against him. He is

described as standing at the parting of the roads leading to

the respective capitals of the Jews and Ammonites; and doubting

which to attack first, he commits the decision of the matter to

his arts of divination, performed by mingling arrows inscribed

with the names of the different nations or cities, and then

marching against that whose name was written on the arrow first

drawn from the quiver. In this case the name Jerusalem comes

forward; and therefore he proceeds against it, 18-24.

History itself could scarcely be more explicit than this

prophecy. The profane prince Zedekiah as then declared to be

given up by God, and his kingdom devoted to utter destruction,

for that breach of oath of which the prophet foretells he

should be guilty, 25-27.

The remaining verses form a distinct prophecy relating to the

destruction of the Ammonites, which was fulfilled about five

years after the destruction of Jerusalem, 28-32.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI


 
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