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Ezekiel 5:17

Ezekiel 5:17
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts,.... Famine is repeated for the further confirmation of it; and "evil beasts" are added, by whom are meant, not the Chaldeans, comparable to such; but…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee - Wild beasts always multiply in depopulated countries. In England, wolves abounded when the country was thinly peopled, it…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 5:5-17

We have here the explanation of the foregoing similitude: This is Jerusalem. Thus it is usual in scripture language to give the name of the thing signified to the sign; as when Christ said, This is my…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

evil beasts The three great plagues often specified are, famine, pestilence and sword (ch. Eze 14:13; Eze 14:17; Eze 14:19), to which a fourth is sometimes added, evil beasts (ch. Eze 14:15; Eze…