Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
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Gill's Exposition
But if the watchman see the sword come,.... Or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum is; so far doing the duty of his office as to be in the watchtower, and not asleep:
and yet blow not the…
The prophet had been, by express order from God, taken off from prophesying to the Jews, just then when the news came that Jerusalem was invested, and close siege laid to it, Eze 24:27. But now that…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Although in Eze 33:33 Jehovah is said to bring the sword upon the people (Eze 14:17), and presumably for their sin, the language of the present verse leads over from the illustration to the thing…
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