the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Ezekiel 21:1
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The word of the Lord came to me again:
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then the Lord spoke his word to me, saying:
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
The word of ye Lord came to me againe, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me saying,
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The word of Adonai came to me:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
So the word of the Lord came to me again. He said,
AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The Lord spoke to me.
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
The worde of the LORDE came to me, sayenge:
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,
The worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then this message came to me from the Lord :
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,
The word of the Lord came to me:
Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
The word of the LORD came to me:
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
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
Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:14 - General Ezekiel 35:1 - General
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I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
But your son Isaac will be born about this time next year, and the promise I am making to you and your family will be for him and his descendants forever.
One of the guests was the Lord , and he said, "I'll come back about this time next year, and when I do, Sarah will already have a son." Sarah was behind Abraham, listening at the entrance to the tent.
I am the Lord ! There is nothing too difficult for me. I'll come back next year at the time I promised, and Sarah will already have a son."
When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, "Hagar, why are you worried? Don't be afraid. I have heard your son crying.
God blessed Ishmael, and as the boy grew older, he became an expert with his bow and arrows. He lived in the Paran Desert, and his mother chose an Egyptian woman for him to marry.
Before Joseph died, he told his brothers, "I won't live much longer. But God will take care of you and lead you out of Egypt to the land he promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Call together the leaders of Israel and tell them that the God who was worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to you. Tell them I have seen how terribly they are being treated in Egypt,
and everyone believed. They bowed down and worshiped the Lord because they knew that he had seen their suffering and was going to help them.
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
