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CHAP. XXI.
1 Ezekiel prophecieth against Ierusalem, with a signe of sighing. 8 The sharpe and bright sword, 18 against Ierusalem, 25 against the kingdome, 28 and against the Ammonites.
1 And the word of þe Lord came vnto me, saying,
7 And it shall be, when they say vnto thee; Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answere, For the tidings, because it commeth: and euery heart shall melt, and all hands shalbe feeble, and euery spirit shal faint, and all knees shal be weake as water: behold, it commeth, and shalbe brought to passe, sayth the Lord God.7
The sword drawen, and fourbished.
8 ¶ Againe, the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,
10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is fourbished, that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? It contemneth the rod of my sonne, as euery tree.10
12 Cry and howle, sonne of man, for it shalbe vpon my people, it shalbe vpon all the princes of Israel: terrours, by reason of the sword, shall be vpon my people: smite therefore vpon thy thigh.12
13 Because it is a tryall, and what if the sword contemne euen the rodde? it shall be no more, sayth the Lord God.13
14 Thou therefore sonne of man, prophecie and smite thine hands together, and let the sword bee doubled the third time, the sword of the slaine, it is the sword of the great men, that are slaine, which entreth into their priuie chambers.14
15 I haue set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruines be multiplied. Ah, it is made bright, it is wrapt vp for the slaughter.15
16 Goe thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoeuer thy face is set.16
17 I will also smite mine hands together, and I wil cause my furie to rest: I the Lord haue sayd it.
18 ¶ The word of the Lord came vnto me againe, saying,
21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two wayes, to vse diuination: he made his arrowes bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liuer.21
22 At his right hand was the diuination for Ierusalem to appoint captaines, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift vp the voice with shouting, to appoint battering-rammes against the gates, to cast a mount and to build a fort.22
23 And it shall be vnto them as a false diuination in their sight, to them that haue sworne oathes: but he will call to remembrance the iniquitie, that they may be taken.23
25 ¶ And thou prophane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquitie shall haue an end,
27 I will ouerturne, ouerturne, ouerturne it, and it shall be no more, vntill he come, whose right it is, and I wil giue it him.27
30 Shall I cause it to returne into his sheath? I will iudge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy natiuitie.30
31 And I will powre out mine indignation vpon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliuer thee into the hand of brutish men and skilfull to destroy.31
View Wesley's Notes for Ezekiel Chapter 21
21:2 The holy places - The temple and all parts of it.
21:3 The righteous - It is no unusual thing, that in publick calamities, those who are indeed righteous should be involved with others.
21:4 All flesh - All the Jews that dwell in the land.
21:5 Shall not return - It shall not return into the scabbard 'till it hath done full execution.
21:6 Sigh therefore - Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins - Like a woman in travail.
21:7 Because - The saddest news you ever heard is coming.
21:9 Furbished - Made clean and bright.
21:10 Of my son - To whom God saith, Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron, #Psa 2:9|. This sword is that rod of iron, which despiseth every tree, and will bear it down.
21:12 It - The devouring sword. Upon thy thigh - In token of thy sense of what they must suffer.
21:13 If - But if the king and kingdom of Judah despise this trial, both shall be destroyed and be no more.
21:14 And smite - In token of amazement and sorrow. Of the slain - Wherewith many shall be slain. Privy chambers - Where they were hidden in hope to escape.
21:15 All their gates - Both of cities, of palaces, and of private houses. Wrapt up - And hath been carefully kept in the scabbard, that it might not be blunted.
21:16 Go - O sword, take thy own course.
21:17 Smite my hands - In token of my approbation.
21:19 Appoint - Paint, or describe them on a tile. One land - That is, Babylon. Chuse - Pitch on some convenient place, where thou mayest place Nebuchadnezzar's army, consulting where this one way divides into two, which was on the edge of the desert of Arabia. At the head - Where each way runs, toward either Rabbath, or Jerusalem; for there Nebuchadnezzar will cast lots.
21:20 To Judah - The Jews.
21:21 Stood - The prophet speaks of what shall be, as if it were already. To use - To consult with his gods, and to cast lots. Arrows - Writing on them the names of the cities, then putting them into a quiver, and thence drawing them out and concluding, according to the name which was drawn. He consulted - Perhaps by a divine permission, the devil gave them answers from those images. In the liver - They judged of future events, by the entrails, and more especially by the liver.
21:22 The divination - The divination which concerned Jerusalem, was managed on his right hand.
21:23 Them - The Jews. That have sworn - Zedekiah, his princes, and nobles, who swore allegiance to the king of Babylon, these perjured persons will contemn all predictions of the prophet. He - Nebuchadnezzar. The iniquity - The wickedness of their perjury and rebellion. They - Zedekiah, and the Jews with him
21:24 Your transgressions - Against God, and against the king of Babylon. Discovered - To all in court, city, and country. With the hand - As birds, or beasts in the net, are taken with the hands, so shall you, and be carried into Babylon.
21:25 And thou - Zedekiah. Whose day - The day of sorrows, and sufferings, and punishment is at hand. Shall have an end - Shall bring the ruin of king and kingdom, and with the overthrow of your state, the means of sinning shall end too.
21:26 The diadem - The royal attire of the head, which the king daily wore. Shall not be the same - The kingdom shall never be what it hath been. Him that is low - Jeconiah. The advance of this captive king, came to pass in the thirty - seventh year of his captivity.
21:27 Shall be no more - Never recover its former glory, 'till the scepter be quite taken away from Judah, and way be made for the Messiah. He hath an incontestable right to the dominion both in the church and in the world. And in due time he shall have the possession of it, all adverse power being overturned.
21:28 Their reproach - Wherewith they reproached Israel in the day of Israel's afflictions.
21:29 While - While thy astrologers, and soothsayers, deceive thee with fair, but false divinations. To bring thee - To bring thee under the sword of the Chaldeans, and destroy thee as the Jews; to make thee stumble and fall on their necks, as men that fall among a multitude of slain.
21:30 Shall I cause it - God will by no means suffer the sword to be sheathed. Judge thee - Condemn, and execute.
21:31 I will blow - As those who melt down metals blow upon the metal in the fire, that the fire may burn the fiercer.
Ezekiel Chapter 21 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
7 Heb. shall goe into water.
10 Or, it is the rod of my sonne, it despiseth euery tree.
12 Or, they are thrust downe to the sword with my people. , Iere.31.19.
13 Or, when the triall hath beene, what then? shall they not also belong to the despising rod?
14 Heb. hand to hand.
15 Or, glittering, or feare. , Or, sharpened.
16 Heb. set thy selfe, take the left hand.
21 Heb. mother of the way. , Or, kniues. , Heb. Teraphim.
22 Or, battering rams. , Heb. rams.
23 Or, for the oathes made vnto them.
27 Heb. peruerted, peruerted, peruerted will I make it.
30 Or, cause to it to returne.
31 Or, burning.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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