Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
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Gill's Exposition
That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of his sheath,.... The same with kindling a fire in Judea; see Gill on Eze 20:48,
it shall not return any more; that is, into…
Barnes' Notes
The righteous and the wicked - take the place of “every green tree and every dry tree” Eze 20:47; “all faces” that of “all flesh:” to show the universality of the destructions. National judgment…
Adam Clarke
From the south to the north - The whole land shall be ravaged from one end to the other.
The prophet had faithfully delivered the message he was entrusted with, in the close of the foregoing chapter, in the terms wherein he received it, not daring to add his own comment upon it; but, when…
Eze 20:45 to Eze 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord
The passage Eze 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of Nebuchadnezzar's…