Ezequiel 21:14

14 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, profetiza, e bate com as mãos uma na outra; e dobre-se a espada até a terceira vez, a espada dos mortalmente feridos; é a espada para a grande matança, a que os rodeia.

Ezequiel 21:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:14

Thou, therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands
together
As being in the greatest agony for what is coming upon thy people: or "strike hand to hand" ^F25; clap them together, as encouraging the enemy with his drawn, sharp, and glittering sword, to make use of it, and do execution with it: and let the sword be doubled the third time;
some think this has reference to the three captivities of Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah: others to the threefold calamity in Zedekiah's time; the first, the taking of him; the second, the taking of the city; the third, the carrying captive the residue along with Gedaliah: or to the three times the Chaldeans came against Jerusalem, after this prophecy; first with Nebuchadnezzar, in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, and took him and the city; then with Nebuzaradan, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, and burnt the city and temple; and again in the twenty third of Nebuchadnezzar, and carried away the remnant of the people, ( Jeremiah 52:5 Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 52:12 Jeremiah 52:30 ) : the sword of the slain:
by which many should be slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain:
of the sons of the kings, and of the princes and nobles of the land: which entereth into their privy chambers;
where they should endeavour to hide themselves from it, but in vain, none should escape; their privy chambers could not secrete nor secure them: or "which remains with them"; as that which is laid up, and reserved in a privy chamber, as De Dieu, from the use of the word in the Ethiopic language, renders it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 (Pk la Pk Khw) "percute manum ad manum", Pagninus, Polanus; "volum ad volam"; Montanus; "feri manum ad manum", Starckius.

Ezequiel 21:14 In-Context

12 Grita e uiva, ó filho do homem, porque ela será contra o meu povo, contra todos os príncipes de Israel. Estes juntamente com o meu povo estão entregues � espada; bate pois na tua coxa.

13 Porque se faz uma prova; e que será se não mais existir a vara desprezadora, diz o Senhor Deus.

14 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, profetiza, e bate com as mãos uma na outra; e dobre-se a espada até a terceira vez, a espada dos mortalmente feridos; é a espada para a grande matança, a que os rodeia.

15 Para que se derreta o coração, e se multipliquem os tropeços, é que contra todas as suas portas pus a ponta da espada; ah! ela foi feita como relâmpago, e está aguçada para matar.

16 e espada, une as tuas forças, vira-te para a direita; prepara-te, vira-te para a esquerda, para onde quer que o teu rosto se dirigir.