I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
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Gill's Exposition
I will also smite my hands together,.... As well as the prophet was bid to do, Eze 21:14, either expressing a concern for the calamity of the people, or indignation at their sins: or rather as…
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism. Eze…
Adam Clarke
Wrapped up - It is not a blunt sword, it is carefully sharpened and preserved for the slaughter.
Here is another prophecy of the sword, which is delivered in a very affecting manner; the expressions here used are somewhat intricate, and perplex interpreters. The sword was unsheathed in the…
Cambridge Bible
the point of the sword Or, the glitter, lit. whirl or swing. Others by changing a letter would read "slaughter," which Frd. Del. (Baer, Ezek.) by comparison of Assyr. considers the word to mean as it…
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