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Ezekiel — Capítulo 5

In this chapter the prophet shows, under the type of hair, the judgments which God was about to execute on the inhabitants of Jerusalem by famine, sword, and dispersion, Eze 5:14. The type or allegory is then dropped,…

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Texto — Reina-Valera 1960

1Y tú, hijo de hombre, tómate un cuchillo agudo, toma una navaja de barbero, y hazla pasar sobre tu cabeza y tu barba; toma después una balanza de pesar y divide los cabellos.

2Una tercera parte quemarás a fuego en medio de la ciudad, cuando se cumplan los días del asedio; y tomarás una tercera parte y la cortarás con espada alrededor de la ciudad; y una tercera parte esparcirás al viento, y yo desenvainaré espada en pos de ellos.

3Tomarás también de allí unos pocos en número, y los atarás en la falda de tu manto.

4Y tomarás otra vez de ellos, y los echarás en medio del fuego, y en el fuego los quemarás; de allí saldrá el fuego a toda la casa de Israel.

5Así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: Esta es Jerusalén; la puse en medio de las naciones y de las tierras alrededor de ella.

6Y ella cambió mis decretos y mis ordenanzas en impiedad más que las naciones, y más que las tierras que están alrededor de ella; porque desecharon mis decretos y mis mandamientos, y no anduvieron en ellos.

7Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová: ¿Por haberos multiplicado más que las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros, no habéis andado en mis mandamientos, ni habéis guardado mis leyes? Ni aun según las leyes de las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros habéis andado.

8Así, pues, ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí yo estoy contra ti; sí, yo, y haré juicios en medio de ti ante los ojos de las naciones.

9Y haré en ti lo que nunca hice, ni jamás haré cosa semejante, a causa de todas tus abominaciones.

10Por eso los padres comerán a los hijos en medio de ti, y los hijos comerán a sus padres; y haré en ti juicios, y esparciré a todos los vientos todo lo que quedare de ti.

11Por tanto, vivo yo, dice Jehová el Señor, ciertamente por haber profanado mi santuario con todas tus abominaciones, te quebrantaré yo también; mi ojo no perdonará, ni tampoco tendré yo misericordia.

12Una tercera parte de ti morirá de pestilencia y será consumida de hambre en medio de ti; y una tercera parte caerá a espada alrededor de ti; y una tercera parte esparciré a todos los vientos, y tras ellos desenvainaré espada.

13Y se cumplirá mi furor y saciaré en ellos mi enojo, y tomaré satisfacción; y sabrán que yo Jehová he hablado en mi celo, cuando cumpla en ellos mi enojo.

14Y te convertiré en soledad y en oprobio entre las naciones que están alrededor de ti, a los ojos de todo transeúnte.

15Y serás oprobio y escarnio y escarmiento y espanto a las naciones que están alrededor de ti, cuando yo haga en ti juicios con furor e indignación, y en reprensiones de ira. Yo Jehová he hablado.

16Cuando arroje yo sobre ellos las perniciosas saetas del hambre, que serán para destrucción, las cuales enviaré para destruiros, entonces aumentaré el hambre sobre vosotros, y quebrantaré entre vosotros el sustento del pan.

17Enviaré, pues, sobre vosotros hambre, y bestias feroces que te destruyan; y pestilencia y sangre pasarán por en medio de ti, y enviaré sobre ti espada. Yo Jehová he hablado.

ADAM CLARKE BIBLE COMMENTARY

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I. Take thee a sharp knife - Among the Israelites, and indeed among most ancient nations, there were…

Take thee a sharp knife - Among the Israelites, and indeed among most ancient nations, there were very few edge-tools. The sword was the chief; and this was used as a knife, a razor, etc., according to its different length and sharpness. It is likely that only one kind of instrument is here intended; a knife or short sword, to be employed as a razor. Here is a new emblem produced, in order to mark out the coming evils. 1. The prophet represents the Jewish nation. 2. His hair, the people. 3. The razor, the Chaldeans. 4. The cutting the beard and hair, the calamities, sorrows, and disgrace coming upon the people. Cutting off the hair was a sign of mourning; see on Jer 45:5 (note); Jer 48:37 (note); and also a sign of great disgrace; see Sa2 10:4. 5. He is ordered to divide the hair, Sa2 10:2, into three equal parts, to intimate the different degrees and kinds of punishment which should fall upon the people. 6. The balances, Sa2 10:1, were to represent the Divine justice, and the exactness with which God's judgments should be distributed among the offenders. 7. This hair, divided into three parts, is to be disposed of thus: 1. A third part is to be burnt in the midst of the city, to show that so many should perish by famine and pestilence during the siege. 2. Another third part he was to cut in small portions about the city, (that figure which he had pourtrayed upon the brick), to signify those who should perish in different sorties, and in defending the walls. 3. And the remaining third part he was to scatter in the wind, to point out those who should be driven into captivity. And, 4. The sword following them was intended to show that their lives should be at the will of their captors, and that many of them should perish by the sword in their dispersions. 5. The few hairs which he was to take in his skirts, Sa2 10:3, was intended to represent those few Jews that should be left in the land under Gedaliah, after the taking of the city. 6. The throwing a part of these last into the fire, Sa2 10:4, was intended to show the miseries that these suffered in Judea, in Egypt, and finally in their being also carried away into Babylon on the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar. See these transactions particularly pointed out in the notes on Jeremiah, chapters 40, 41, 42. Some think that this prophecy may refer to the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes.

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II. This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations - I have made this city the most emi…

This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations - I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to its geographical situation, as being equally in the center of the habitable world. But any point on a globe is its center, no matter where laid down; and it would not be difficult to show that even this literal sense is tolerably correct. But the point which is the center of the greatest portion of land that can be exhibited on one hemisphere is the capital of the British empire. See my Sermon on the universal spread of the Gospel.

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III. She hath changed my judgments - God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater sever…

She hath changed my judgments - God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad and idolatrous as they were, they had a greater degree of morality among them than the Jews had. Having fallen from the true God, they became more abominable than others in proportion to the height, eminence, and glory from which they had fallen. This is the common case of backsliders; they frequently, in their fall, become tenfold more the children of wrath than they were before.

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IV. I will do in thee that which I have not done - The destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar was…

I will do in thee that which I have not done - The destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar was one of the greatest calamities that ever fell on any nation or place before; and that by the Romans under Titus exceeded all that has taken place since. These two sackages of that city have no parallel in the history of mankind.

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V. The fathers shall eat the sons - Though we have not this fact so particularly stated in history, …

The fathers shall eat the sons - Though we have not this fact so particularly stated in history, yet we cannot doubt of it, considering the extremities to which they were reduced during the siege. The same is referred to by Jeremiah, Lam 4:10. Even the women, who were remarkable for kindness and humanity, boiled their own children, and ate them during the siege. Will I scatter into all the winds - Disperse you, by captivity, among all the nations of the earth.

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VI. A third part of thee - See the note on Eze 5:1-4 (note).

A third part of thee - See the note on Eze 5:1-4 (note).

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VII. I will cause my fury to rest - My displeasure, and the evidences of it, shall not be transient; t…

I will cause my fury to rest - My displeasure, and the evidences of it, shall not be transient; they shall be permanent upon you, and among you. And is not this dreadfully true to the present day?

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VIII. The evil arrows of famine - Famine and pestilence are represented as poisoned arrows, inflicting …

The evil arrows of famine - Famine and pestilence are represented as poisoned arrows, inflicting death wherever they wound. The ancients represented them in the same way.

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IX. So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee - Wild beasts always …

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 is now full of inhabitants, and there is not one wolf in the land. Nebuchadnezzar and his Chaldeans may be called here evil beasts. He is often compared to a lion, Jer 4:7; Dan 7:14; on account of the ravages made by him and his Chaldean armies.

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