Ezekiel 5:2 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 5:2

When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

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ASV

A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

KJV

Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Thou, shall burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city,.... Of Jerusalem, as portrayed upon the tile, Eze 4:1; or the prophet was now in Chaldea.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

“The third part burnt in the midst of the city” represents those who perished within the city during the siege; “the third part smitten about it” (the city) “with” the sword, those who were killed about the city during the same period: “the third part scattered to the wind” those who after the siege were dispersed in foreign lands. In the midst of the city - The prophet is in exile, and is to do this in the midst of Jerusalem. His action being ideal is fitly assigned to the place which the prophecy concerns.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Three classes are described. The sword was to destroy one third of the people; famine and plague another third ("fire" in Eze 5:2 being explained in Eze 5:12 to mean pestilence and famine); that which remained was to be scattered among the nations.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שְׁלִשִׁ֗ית	she.li.Shit	a third [part]	H7992 →
בָּא֤וּר	ba.'Ur	in the fire	H217 →
תַּבְעִיר֙	tav.'Ir	you will burn	H1197 →
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in [the] midst of	H8432 →
הָעִ֔יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
כִּמְלֹ֖את	kim.Lot	when are completed	H4390 →
יְמֵ֣י	ye.Mei	[the] days of	H3117 →
הַמָּצ֑וֹר	ha.ma.Tzor	the siege	H4692 →
וְלָֽקַחְתָּ֣	ve.la.kach.Ta	and you will take	H3947 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֗ית	ha.she.li.Shit	<the> third [part]	H7992 →
תַּכֶּ֤ה	ta.Keh	you will strike [it]	H5221 →
בַחֶ֙רֶב֙	va.Che.rev	with the sword	H2719 →
סְבִ֣יבוֹתֶ֔יהָ	se.Vi.vo.Tei.ha	around it	H5439 →
וְהַשְּׁלִשִׁית֙	ve.ha.she.li.Shit	and <the> third [part]	H7992 →
תִּזְרֶ֣ה	tiz.Reh	you will disperse	H2219 →
לָר֔וּחַ	la.Ru.ach	to the wind	H7307 →
וְחֶ֖רֶב	ve.Che.rev	and a sword	H2719 →
אָרִ֥יק	'a.Rik	I will draw	H7324 →
אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃	'a.cha.rei.Hem	after them	H310 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 15:2
If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword;…
leads to
- Jeremiah 43:11
  He will come and strike down the land of Egypt, bringing death to those destined for death, captivity to those destined for captivity, and the sword to those destined for the sword.
- Zechariah 11:9
  Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
- Revelation 6:3–8
  And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
- Revelation 13:10
  “If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and…
Through
Leviticus 26:33
But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
leads to
- Zechariah 7:14
  But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they…
- Ezekiel 20:23
  However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
- Deuteronomy 4:27
  Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Through
Ezekiel 5:12
A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every…
leads to
- Jeremiah 15:2
  If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword;…

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06About Ezekiel

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