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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 21:4 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 21:4 |
King James |
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| The "sword" did not, literally, slay all; but the judgments of God by the foe swept through the land "from the south to the north." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The righteous and the wicked - take the place of "every green tree and every dry tree" Eze 20:47; "all faces" that of "all flesh:" to show the universality of the destructions. National judgment involves the innocent in the temporal ruin of the guilty. The equity of God is vindicated by the ruin being only temporal.
From the south to the north - From one end of the holy land to the other; the seer is in the north, and looks at once on the whole extent of the ruin. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| All flesh - All the Jews that dwell in the land. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| From the south to the north - The whole land shall be ravaged from one end to the other. |
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.