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Ezekiel 5:4

in Ezekiel 5

Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And of these again shalt thou take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

KJV

Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.

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This verse in Ezekiel 5

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

Then the application will follow; but this I shall pass by today, because I cannot proceed farther. It is sufficient to hold briefly, that men are here designated by hairs, for hair can scarcely be counted, indeed that of the beard is countless; such was the multitude at Jerusalem, for we know that the city was very populous.

This site's exposition

take thee a barber’s razor

on Ezekiel 5:1-4

The razor sign follows the tile and the iron pan as the third acted judgment: Ezekiel shaves his own head and beard, weighs the hair, and divides it in three. A third is burned inside the drawn city when the siege is fulfilled, a third struck with the knife round about it, and a third scattered to the wind with a sword drawn out after it, the razor doing to Ezekiel's own body what the sword and famine and pestilence will do to Jerusalem's people. A small remnant of the hair is bound in his skirts, and even that remnant is not left untouched, some of it cast back into the fire, a further burning out of an already spared few. Keil reads the double burning of the remnant as the chapter's harshest note, that even those who survive the first judgment are not simply safe.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּמֵהֶם֙and some of them

    umehem

  • ע֣וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • תִּקָּ֔חyou will take

    tikachH3947 →966 times

  • וְהִשְׁלַכְתָּ֤and you will throw

    vehishlakhtaH7993 →125 times

  • אוֹתָם֙<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • תּ֣וֹךְ[the] middle of

    tokhH8432 →418 times

  • הָאֵ֔שׁthe fire

    haeshH784 →378 times

  • וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֥and you will burn

    vesaraftaH8313 →117 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • בָּאֵ֑שׁin the fire

    baeshH784 →378 times

  • מִמֶּ֥נּוּfrom it

    mimenuH4480 →1188 times

  • תֵצֵא־it will go out

    tetze'-H3318 →1067 times

  • אֵ֖שׁa fire

    ʾeshH784 →378 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בֵּ֥ית[the] house of

    beitH1004 →2046 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ פIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

8 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Kings 25:25In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.2 worksJeremiah 48:45“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.2 worksJeremiah 41:1–18In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.2 worksJeremiah 52:30in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.2 worksJeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”2 worksEzekiel 28:18By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
Ezekiel 7:11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.2 worksLeviticus 14:45It must be torn down with its stones, its timbers, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 4:4

    Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 10:16

      Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

    • Romans 2:28–29

      A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

    • Deuteronomy 30:6

      The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

    • Colossians 2:11

      In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands.

    • Jeremiah 9:26

      Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 48:45

    “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 24:17

      I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come forth from Jacob, and a scepter will arise from Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab and…

  • Through

    2 Kings 25:25

    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the…

    it leads to

    • Zechariah 8:19

      “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of…

    • Zechariah 7:5

      “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 5 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; John Calvin, Commentaries and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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