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**the LORD** . Hebrew. *Jehovah* . App-4 .

**Son of man.** See note on [Ezekiel 2:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/1) .
**holy.** See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) .
**the land of Israel** = the soil of Israel, Hebrew. *'admath Israel* . See note on [Ezekiel 11:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/17) .

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**draw forth My sword** , See note on [Ezekiel 5:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/5/2) , [Ezekiel 5:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/5/17) , and [Ezekiel 12:14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/12/14) .
**the righteous** , &c. Therefore [Ezekiel 18:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/2) , [Ezekiel 18:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/3) , is not yet ful filled, but corresponds with the green tree and the dry of [Ezekiel 20:47](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/47) .
**the righteous** = a righteous one.
**the wicked** = a lawless one. Heb, *rasha'.* App-44 .

**it shall not return** , &c.: i.e. until it has executed its mission.

**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach,* App-9 .
**saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle. See note on [Ezekiel 2:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/4) .

**the LORD** = Jehovah. App-4 . Some codices, with three early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read *Adonai.* App-4 .
**A sword** , a sword. Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ), for emphasis = a great or sharp sword.

**make a sore slaughter.** Figure of speech *Polyptbton* ( App-6 ), for emphasis. Hebrew to slay a slaughter.
**glitter** = flash as lightning.
**should we then make mirth?** or, "should we flourish [the sceptre of My son (i.e. of Judah? "
**it,** &c. i.e. "Jehovah's sword despiseth the [wooden] sceptre of My son (i.e. Judah), as [it despiseth] every tree". The Ellipsis is to be thus supplied.
**rod** = sceptre.

**the slayer** : i.e. the king of Babylon.

**it** : i.e. the sword of Jehovah, the king of Babylon.
**princes** = leaders.
**be** = come.
**terrors by** , &c. = who shall be delivered to the sword with My People.
**smite therefore** , &c. This was the symbol of grief in man, as beating the breast was in woman.

**it is a trial** = sit (Jehovah's sword) has been tried (or proved).
**and what** , &c. = and what [will happen or be the result] if [Jehovah's sword shall not despise] the [wooden] sceptre?
**it shall be no more** = it will not [despise it.
**saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.

**smite thine hands together** , &c. A sign of disappointment or grief in men. Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 24:10](../../../kjv/numbers/24/10) ).

**their ruins** = the overthrown. So the Septuagint and Syriac. Compare [Jeremiah 18:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/23) .
**bright** = bright as lightning.
**wrapped up** keen, or sharp.

**Go thee** . Figure of speech *Apostrophe.* App-6 . Addressedto the sword.
**thee** : i.e. the sword. Not Ezekiel. It is feminine, not masculine: = Go to the right, turn to the left: or, One stroke to the right, another to the left, &c.
**thy face** = thine edge.

**I will also smite** , &c. Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .

**that the sword . . . may come** = for the sword to come.
**both twain** = the two ways.
**choose thou a place** = grave a hand: i.e. set up a
**sign** = post.

**stood** = bath come to a stand.
**to use divination** = to divine a divination.
**made his arrows bright** = hath shaken his arrows. This was one of the modes of divination by which the arrow (marked like a lot), gave the decision.
**images** = teraphim.
**looked in** , &c. = inspected the liver; another mode of divination. It healthy or double and the lobes inclined inward, the omen was favourable; but if diseased or too dry, or without a lobe or a band between the parts, the omen was unfavourable.

**appoint captains** = set up battering-rams. Compare [Ezekiel 4:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/4/2) .
**the mouth in the slaughter** = a hole by a breach.
**shouting** = a war shout.
**and.** Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "and" in the text.
**a fort** = a siege wall.

**them** : i.e. Zedekiah and the rulers in Jerusalem. sworn oaths. Referring to Zedekiah's reacherous breach of faith with the king of Babylon. See [Ezekiel 17:11-21](../../../kjv/ezekiel/17/11-21) .
**iniquity** = treachery. Hebrew. *'avdh* . App-44 .

**transgressions** = rebellion (plural of Majesty) = great rebellion. Hebrew. *pasha'.* App-44 .
**sins** . Hebrew. *chata* '. App-44 . plural of Majesty = great sin.
**with the hand** = captured, or made captives.

**profane** = pierced through: i.e. deadly wounded
**one** . Zedekiah a type of the future Antichrist. Compare [Revelation 13:3](../../../kjv/revelation/13/3) .
**wicked** = lawless. Hebrew. *rasha .* App-44 . x,
**iniquity . . . an end.** Figure of speech *Hypallage* . App-8 , Hebrew "iniquity of the end" = an end
**of the iniquity.** Hebrew. *'avah* , as in [Ezekiel 21:23](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/23) .

**be the same:** or, endure. They might exalt and abase. but Jehovah would not recognise it.

**overturn,** &c. Figure of speech *Epizeuxis* ( App-6 ), for great emphasis.
**until He come:** i.e. the promised Messiah Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 49:10](../../../kjv/genesis/49/10) ). App-92 . See [Isaiah 9:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/6) , [Isaiah 9:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/7) ; [Isaiah 42:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/42/1) .[Jeremiah 23:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/23/5) ; [Jeremiah 33:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/33/17) . [Zechariah 6:12](../../../kjv/zechariah/6/12) , [Zechariah 6:13](../../../kjv/zechariah/6/13) , &c.

**their reproach.** Brought against Jerusalem. See [Jeremiah 49:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/49/1) .[Zephaniah 2:8](../../../kjv/zephaniah/2/8) .
**to consume** = that when it beginneth it may flash like lightning.

**the wicked** = wicked ones (plural) their. Refers to "them" ([Ezekiel 21:23](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/23) ).

**men.** Hebrew, plural *of 'enosh.* App-14 .

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