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Ezekiel 5:7-17

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7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are 1more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, 2and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, 3and have not[a] even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,
8 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, 4am against you. 5And I will execute judgments[b] in your midst 6in the sight of the nations.
9 And because of all your abominations I will do with you 7what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.
10 Therefore 8fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. 9And I will execute judgments on you, 10and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.
11 Therefore, 11as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, 12because you have defiled my sanctuary 13with all your detestable things and with all your 14abominations, 15therefore I will withdraw.[c]16My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
12 17A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; 18a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; 19and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.
13 20"Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that 21I am the LORD--that I have spoken in my jealousy--22when I spend my fury upon them.
14 Moreover, I will make you 23a desolation and 24an object of reproach among 25the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.
15 You shall be[d] a reproach and a taunt, a warning 26and a horror, to 27the nations all around you, 28when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and 29with furious rebukes--I am the LORD; I have spoken--
16 when I send against you[e]30the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon 31you and break your supply[f] of bread.
17 I will send famine and 32wild beasts against you, 33and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and 34blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken."
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Ezekiel 5:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 5

This chapter is of the same argument with the former; and contains a type of Jerusalem's destruction; an explanation of that type; what were the reasons of God's judgments on that city; and the nature, rise, and end of them. The type is in Eze 5:1-4; the explanation of that type is in Eze 5:5; the reasons of the severe judgments threatened are changing the statutes of the Lord, and not walking in them, and defiling the sanctuary with their abominations, Eze 5:6-11; an account of the judgments of God, answerable to each of the parts in the type, Eze 5:12; the ends of these judgments are, with respect to God, the accomplishment of his anger, and the satisfaction of his justice; with respect to the Jews, bringing them to an acknowledgment that he had spoken in his zeal; and, with respect to the nations, their instruction and astonishment, Eze 5:13-15; and the chapter is concluded with an assurance that these judgments would be sent, Eze 5:16,17.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 34

  • 1. Psalms 2:1; Psalms 46:6
  • 2. Ezekiel 16:47
  • 3. [Ezekiel 11:12]
  • 4. See Ezekiel 13:8
  • 5. Ezekiel 11:9; Ezekiel 16:41; Ezekiel 23:10
  • 6. Ezekiel 22:16
  • 7. [2 Kings 21:12, 13; Lamentations 1:12; Daniel 9:12]
  • 8. See Jeremiah 19:9
  • 9. [See ver. 8 above]
  • 10. Ezekiel 12:14; Ezekiel 17:21; Ezekiel 22:15; Ezekiel 36:19; Deuteronomy 28:64; Jeremiah 9:16; Jeremiah 15:4; Zechariah 2:6; [ver. 2; ch. Ezekiel 36:19]
  • 11. See Ezekiel 16:48
  • 12. Ezekiel 8:3, 5, 6; Ezekiel 23:39; 2 Chronicles 36:14; Jeremiah 7:30
  • 13. Ezekiel 11:18
  • 14. Ezekiel 7:20; Ezekiel 11:18, 21
  • 15. Ezekiel 16:27
  • 16. Ezekiel 7:4, 9; Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:5, 10; [Jeremiah 21:7]
  • 17. [ver. 2; Ezekiel 6:11, 12; Jeremiah 15:2]
  • 18. [ver. 2; Ezekiel 6:11, 12; Jeremiah 15:2]
  • 19. [ver. 2; Ezekiel 6:11, 12; Jeremiah 15:2]
  • 20. Ezekiel 6:12; Ezekiel 7:8; Ezekiel 20:8, 21; Lamentations 4:11; [Ezekiel 39:25]
  • 21. Ezekiel 36:5, 6; Ezekiel 38:19
  • 22. Ezekiel 6:12; Ezekiel 7:8; Ezekiel 20:8, 21; Lamentations 4:11; [Ezekiel 39:25]
  • 23. Ezekiel 6:6; See Jeremiah 22:5
  • 24. Ezekiel 22:4; Nehemiah 2:17; Psalms 79:4; Jeremiah 24:9
  • 25. ver. 5, 6
  • 26. Ezekiel 14:8; Deuteronomy 28:37
  • 27. [See ver. 14 above]
  • 28. [Ezekiel 14:21]
  • 29. Ezekiel 25:17
  • 30. Deuteronomy 32:23, 24
  • 31. See Ezekiel 4:16
  • 32. Ezekiel 14:15; Ezekiel 33:27; Ezekiel 34:25; Deuteronomy 32:24; [2 Kings 17:25]
  • 33. [Ezekiel 36:12]
  • 34. Ezekiel 38:22

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Some Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac lack not
  • [b]. The same Hebrew expression can mean obey rules, or execute judgments, depending on the context
  • [c]. Some Hebrew manuscripts I will cut you down
  • [d]. Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Masoretic Text And it shall be
  • [e]. Hebrew them
  • [f]. Hebrew staff
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